having someone insert their fingers into your chest cavity
is not surgery?

they do by the way, to ensure the hole is big enough, and to ensure the tube rests correctly into one of the lobes. and whilst they say your lung has no nerves - somehow you can feel everything. all the tugging etc. I expect its close i would get to the feeling of having a Caesarean.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 0:54, 1 reply)

It's as much a surgical procedure as having an IV cannula, nasogastric tube or catheter inserted is. IE not really.
It's a procedure that, whilst performed under aseptic conditions can be carried out by any individual adequately trained to do so and does not require an operating theatre to do so. Most A&E doctors aren't recognised surgeons. Neither are chest physicians. Or anaesthetists.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 17 Jul 2013, 20:40, closed)