執刀

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 執刀 is read as しっとう and is a noun and する verb for a physician personally taking charge of and performing an operation.
• Basic usage: Performing the operation appears in 手術を執刀する, while the stage before it appears in 執刀前に手順を確認する.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Role of the operating physician
  • It presents the procedure from the physician's role in directly performing it, not from the patient's perspective of receiving surgery.
• Difference from 手術
  • 手術 denotes the medical operation itself, while 執刀 focuses on the act and role of the physician who leads and directly performs it.