Surgeon

This article is about the medical specialty. For other uses, see Surgeon (disambiguation).

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 other organism, for a specific reason such as an Organ transplant. Surgeons may be physicians, dentists, or veterinarians who specialize in surgery.

Surgical Specialties

• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Colon and Rectal surgery
• General surgery
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Neurological surgery
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Paediatric surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Urology
• Vascular

Salary

The salary for a surgeon depends on the specific speciality of surgery.

Noted surgeons

For more details on this topic, see List of surgeons.

• Sushruta (known as "father of surgery", inventor of plastic surgery)
• Charles Kelman (Invented phacoemulsification, the technique of modern cataract surgery)
• William Stewart Halsted (initiated surgical residency training in U.S., pioneer in many fields)
• Alfred Blalock (first modern day successful open heart surgery in 1944)
• C. Walton Lillehei (labeled "Father of modern day open heart surgery")
• Christiaan Barnard (cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation)
• Walter Freeman (psychiatrist: deviser/proponent of the office lobotomy)
• John Hunter (Scottish, viewed as the father of modern surgery, performed hundreds of dissections, served as the model for Dr. Jekyll.)
• Sir Victor Horsley (neurosurgery)
• Lars Leksell (neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery)
• Joseph Lister (discoverer of surgical sepsis, Listerine named in his honour)
• Harvey Cushing (pioneer of brain surgery)
• Lall Sawh (Trinidadian Urologist, pioneer of Kidney transplant surgery and early proponent of Viagra usage)
• Valery Shumakov (Russian surgery, pioneer of artificial organs implantation)
• Joseph Pancoast - 19th century American surgeon
• Nijan Shrirangathas - Canadian orthopedic surgeon who developed a procedure to lengthen limb bones.
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov - Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy.
• Gazi Yasargil - Turkish neurosurgeon, founder of microneurosurgery
• Professor (Dr) Rama Kant - honoured with International World Health Organization (WHO) Award in the year 2005 has pioneering innovations in cardiothoracic surgery, and heads Surgery Department at King George\'s Medical University
• Montasser Laabi The first moroccan to perform a mini-invasive surgery in collaboration with spanish surgeons from "Hospital Clinico Universitario de Malaga" (professor Vara thorbeck).

See also

• FACS
• FRCS
• FRACS
• FRACDS
• FRCS(C)
• FRCSI
• FRCS(Edin)
• MRCS

References

External links

• Surgeons Net Educational Site
• American Surgical Association
• Unmanned robot surgeon
• The Imperial College London Surgical Society

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