The phrase "performing an operation" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe performing a physical or mental operation. For example: "The surgeon was performing an operation that required intense concentration and skill."
A gynaecologist said: 'We receive much more money [from the insurer] for performing an operation than for talking for an hour about the option not to operate.' [remark by a gynaecologist] The professionals further argued that it is not the responsibility of an individual doctor or patient to decide which (expensive) interventions should be offered in specific cases.
"A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation".
Performing an operation before a baby can remember the trauma spares them the distress of going through it as a teenager.
He received a phone call from Sen. Thye, of Minn., informing him of the appointment one mornin while he was performing an operation.
Marketed as a general anti-pollution barrier rather than specifically for cycling, this resembles a surgical mask, as if I was performing an operation when asked to run an urgent errand.
John Fashanu's late tackle left the Northern Ireland international with snapped knee ligaments and a severed nerve, an injury so bad that surgeon Hugh Phillips, speaking after performing an operation on O'Neill, detailed the extent of the damage: "The injury is the worst of its type I have seen.
"A plane is able to fly itself about as much as the modern operating room can perform an operation by itself".
After a while they performed an operation.
He said he would perform an operation to cut the fingers lower down the bone.
In April this year, Ahmed performed an operation removing a cancerous tumour from a 70-year-old patient at the Royal London Hospital.
The hospital said Dougherty had had a brain hemorrhage and performed an operation to relieve pressure on the brain.
