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Is aware of discussing one patient's operation (4,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nose job

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'operation' is the definition.
(nose job is a kind of operation)

'is aware of discussing one patient's' is the wordplay.
'is aware of' becomes 'knows' (I've seen this before).
'discussing' shows a homophone (sound like).
'one patient's' becomes 'job' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'knows' is a homophone of 'nose'.
'nose'+'job'='NOSE JOB'

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(Other definitions for nose job that I've seen before include "Rhinoplasty" , "Facial operation" , "Schnozzle surgery" , "Assignment for features editor" , "Piece of plastic surgery" .)

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