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Piece of old film on medical procedure put back in (2-5)

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I believe the answer is:

re-elect

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'medical procedure put back in' is the definition.
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'piece of old film on' is the wordplay.
'piece of old' becomes 'ect' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'film' becomes 'reel' (reel is a kind of film).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'ect' after 'reel' is 'RE-ELECT'.

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(Other definitions for re-elect that I've seen before include "Bring to power again" , "Put into power again" , "Vote in again" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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