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| Surgeon | |
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 Surgeons in an operating theatre |
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| Occupation | |
| Type | Profession |
| Activity sectors | Medicine |
| Description | |
| Competencies | Good memory, analytical mind, patience, steady hand |
| Education required | Degree in medicine |
| Fields of employment | Hospitals |
| Related jobs | Doctor |
In medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such to remove a diseased organ or to repair a tear or breakage. Surgeons may be physicians, dentists, podiatrists or veterinarians. In earlier times, they were also people trained solely in removing bladder stonescitation needed, but at the present day specialised practitioners would have first been trained in one of the aforementioned professions.
Minimally invasive procedures such as the procedures of interventional radiology are sometimes described as "minimally invasive surgery." The field traditionally described as interventional neuroradiology, for instance, is increasingly called neurointerventional surgery.
Robotic surgery is an area of growing interest.citation needed
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By the beginning of the 19th century, Dr.Sanghwan and Dr.Dongsin had obtained high statuscitation needed, and in 1800, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London began to offer surgeons a formal status via RCS membership. The title Mister became a badge of honor, and today after someone graduates from medical school with the degrees MBBS or MB ChB, (or variants thereof) in these countries they are called "Doctor" until they are able, after at least four years training, to obtain a surgical qualification: formerly Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons but also Member of the Royal College of Surgeons or a number of other diplomas, they are given the honour of being allowed to revert back to calling themselves Mr, Miss, Mrs or Ms in the course of their professional practice, but this time the meaning is different. Patients in the UK may assume that the change of title implies Consultant status (and some mistakenly think non-surgical consultants are Mr too), but the length of postgraduate medical training outside North America is such that a Mr (etc) may be years away from obtaining such a post: many doctors used to obtain these qualifications in the Senior House Officer grade, and remain in that grade when they began sub-specialty training. By contrast, physicians and surgeons in countries other than the UK are always addressed as "Doctor."
There are only 1200 transplant surgeons.
Some medical doctors who are general practitioners or specialists in family medicine or emergency medicine may perform limited ranges of minor, common, or emergency surgery. Anesthesia often accompanies surgery, and anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists may oversee this aspect of surgery. First assistants, surgical nurses, surgical technologists and operating department practitioners are trained professionals who support surgeons.
The salary for a surgeon depends on the specific specialty of surgery.
| Medical speciality | Annual salary in US 1 |
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| Neurosurgery | $550,000 |
| Orthopedic Surgery | $450,000 |
| Plastic Surgery | $350,000 |
| Otolaryngology | $320,000 |
| General Surgery | $300,000 |
| Podiatric surgery | $200,000 |
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