General Surgeon??

Question

What does a general surgeon do and what parts of the body does it operate on? Pros and cons.

Answer 1

General surgeons deal with *general* surgical problems, i.e. anything that falls into the ED on your average weekday - emergency abdominal surgery (appendicectomies, decompression of bowel obstruction), vascular emergencies, plastics emergencies (accidentally chopping bits of yourself off) - a bit of everything really. Most of them have a sub-speciality too. I am currently working under a general surgeon who specialises in lower gastrointestinal surgery (mostly colorectal cancers etc). Pros and cons... Err, pros - if you like surgery you get to do a wide range of it. Cons - you need to know lots of anatomy and random c**p that probably wouldn't be much use if you decided to change career and become a banker ;o) No idea on the latter part I'm afraid, I'm not one myself...

Answer 2

Go to a Medical Bookstore and buy a book on General Surgery. What do you mean pros and cons? about what?