General Surgeon Training?
Wanting to join Med School and already interested in becomming General Surgeon. I am aware they focus on the Stomach area (Liver, gallbladder etc) , but if you needed to do Breast and Colon surgery aswell, is that possible? And am I right in thinking they do Thyroid aswell? Any Links would be good explaining all this (all their Sub Specialaties). Many Thanks
Answers:
you are thinking of thoracic surgery, as opposed to general
General surgeons are a dying breed, and by the time you are qualified, may well not exist any more. By increasing subspecialisation surgical results are vastly improved. Using specialist breast surgeons, the cure rate for breast cancer has increased. So surgery is going down the route of specialization: we enjoy hepatobiliary surgeons, upper and lower gastrointestinal surgeons, ENT and head and neck surgeons etc. Patient care is becoming centralised-we are moving away from common hospitals and general surgeons, so its unlikely that posts incorporating surgery on all sites in the body will exist for much longer. Source(s): I'm a consultant working full time within the NHS
General surgeons do adjectives sorts of operations.
They do pretty much anything in the belly - gall bladders, colons, small intestines, liver and pancreas (though we don't resembling to touch those organs - they bleed and do other bad things), rectal surgery (hemorrhoids and fistulae).
Other areas they work on: hernias, wound debridements, limb amputations, removal of skin and subcutaneous lesions (like lipomas), placement of vascular access ports, peritoneal dialysys catheters and IVC filter, thyroid surgery, breast surgery (biopsies to mastectomies) and probably a whole list of stuff that I'm just not thinking of. Source(s): I work near them, keeping their patients alive.
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Answers:
you are thinking of thoracic surgery, as opposed to general
General surgeons are a dying breed, and by the time you are qualified, may well not exist any more. By increasing subspecialisation surgical results are vastly improved. Using specialist breast surgeons, the cure rate for breast cancer has increased. So surgery is going down the route of specialization: we enjoy hepatobiliary surgeons, upper and lower gastrointestinal surgeons, ENT and head and neck surgeons etc. Patient care is becoming centralised-we are moving away from common hospitals and general surgeons, so its unlikely that posts incorporating surgery on all sites in the body will exist for much longer. Source(s): I'm a consultant working full time within the NHS
General surgeons do adjectives sorts of operations.
They do pretty much anything in the belly - gall bladders, colons, small intestines, liver and pancreas (though we don't resembling to touch those organs - they bleed and do other bad things), rectal surgery (hemorrhoids and fistulae).
Other areas they work on: hernias, wound debridements, limb amputations, removal of skin and subcutaneous lesions (like lipomas), placement of vascular access ports, peritoneal dialysys catheters and IVC filter, thyroid surgery, breast surgery (biopsies to mastectomies) and probably a whole list of stuff that I'm just not thinking of. Source(s): I work near them, keeping their patients alive.
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