The reason an inner-city basketball player learns to use his left hand and a young surgeon refuses is quite clear to me.
It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to perform it.
The corpse rotted quickly, and the surgeons of the hospital refused to dissect it.
Perhaps the most disturbing suggestion was that cardiac surgeons were refusing to accept high-risk patients.
Although the child is still alive, at the last minute the surgeon refuses to operate.
There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate.
The surgeon may have refused to operate on the passenger because it was her own baby.
In the retreat, the 19th's surgeon, Joseph Dulaney, refused to leave the wounded and was captured, but later released.
One puzzle in the Los Angeles outbreak is why the surgeon had refused the vaccine, which would have protected himself and his patients.
Leopard's surgeon, mad with drink, had refused the Captain's invitation.