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Key facts
- Names
- Physician Surgeon
- Occupation type
- Specialty
- Activity sectors
- Medicine , Surgery
- Education required
- Master of Surgery (M.S.) Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
- Fields of employment
- Hospitals , Clinics
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
598,300 papers- General Surgery Resident Autonomy: Truth and Myth.The Surgical clinics of North America · 2021
- General surgery of childhood in the UK: a general surgeon's perspective.Journal of pediatric surgery · 2020
- General Surgeons Australia's 12-point plan for emergency general surgery.ANZ journal of surgery · 2019
- General surgery: present and future.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2012
- Pediatric surgery.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- medical specialty
- Subclass of
- surgery
- Part of
- surgery
- Image
- Surgeon.jpg
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- Category:General surgery
- Commons category
- General surgery
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Encyclopedic overview
A surgeon operating.
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. General surgeons also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral artery disease and hernias and perform endoscopic as such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy and laparoscopic procedures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “general surgery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.