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Does the phrase "I once was going an appendectomy" mean "I once was going to receive an operation - appendectomy"? But what follows appears to point out the speaker himself is a doctor who does appendectomy for his patients. Does the phrase mean that the doctor himself became a patient to receive the operation?
I once was going an appendectomy. I cut into my patient’s abdomen and immediately get a weird feeling. When I looked inside, my heart dropped.
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It seems like there might be a typo in the sentence. If the context is a doctor speaking, then the sentence would say:
"I once was doing an appendectomy. I cut into my patient’s abdomen and immediately get a weird feeling. When I looked inside, my heart dropped."
If you were a spectator heading to watch the surgery, you might say, "I once was going to see an appendectomy performed. I sat in the balcony and watched the doctor perform the operation."
