brain surgery

brain surgery

A task requiring extreme intelligence, skill, or competence, usually used in a negative or rhetorical manner to indicate the opposite. Just follow the directions as they're written—it isn't brain surgery.
See also: brain, surgery
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • surgery
  • brain surgeon
  • all there
  • How (something) can you be?
  • How (something) can you get?
  • how selfish, stupid, ungrateful, etc. can you get?
  • selfish
  • ungrateful
  • have enough sense to pound sand
  • have enough sense to pound salt
References in periodicals archive
Dr Kutty explained that while minimal access brain surgery is not more or less risky than traditional surgery, it offers more benefits than open surgery, especially in terms of making a patient's life easier and more secure.
We did a special type of surgery called awake brain surgery used by some neurosurgeons to remove tumours that are located close to areas that control vision, speech and body movements.
Her parents have since launched a campaign to raise the PS115,000 required to send her to the Texas Children's Hospital where she is a candidate for a curable brain surgery which isn't available in the UK on the NHS.
Brain surgery is important, it's a big deal, but patient outcomes are also heavily influenced by the care that happens before the first incision and the care that happens long after the procedure ends.
They are among the thousands of children to undergo brain surgery at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital each year.
The epilepsy programme at CCAD, includes a comprehensive planning for brain surgery to treat the patients who do not respond to medicine.
Modus V enables neurosurgeons to perform delicate brain surgery with much more precision, potentially allowing for less-invasive procedures that lead to quicker recovery times and reduced complications, said Michael Schulder, MD, director of the Brain Tumor Center at Northwell Health's Neuroscience Institute, and the leader of the Synaptive Technology project at NSUH.
Dubai: A 50-year-old surgical patient sang and talked to doctors all through a complicated brain surgery as doctors removed a tennis-ball sized tumour at the Thumbay Hospital in Ajman, this month.
The post Indian man strums guitar during brain surgery appeared first on Cyprus Mail .
Parents of the kid thanked ATH administration and doctor for their support as they are very poor and could not afford this kind of complicated brain surgery from a private hospital.
Phil Hassall needed brain surgery following last week's terror attack.
Student (with PRAS internship education (+) and without PRAS internship education (-)) referrals of patients to certain medical departments, such as eye surgery, urology, neurology, obstetrics, paediatrics, orthopaedics, dermatology, brain surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery, ear, nose, and throat, cardiovascular surgery, and physical therapy and rehabilitation, were investigated.
He was at her bedside after her brain surgery in London and through 12 rounds of chemo.
A TEENAGER who has been recovering from brain surgery was attacked and robbed, then thrown into a canal by three thugs in Digbeth.
The teenager, from Bournemouth, has been in an induced coma at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff since last Friday's accident and has undergone brain surgery.