surgeon n : a physician who specializes in surgery [syn: operating surgeon, sawbones]

English

Pronunciation

• IPA [ˈsɚdʒən]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒən

Noun

1. One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

   The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.

Synonyms

• sawbones (slang)

Derived terms

• neurosurgeon
• psychosurgeon
• surgeonfish

Translations

French

Noun

surgeon m

1. sprout

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 medical practitioners, dentists, podiatrists or veterinarians. In earlier times there were also people trained solely in removing bladder stones, but at the present day specialised practitioners would have first been trained in one of the professions already mentioned.

Surgical Specialties

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

Salary

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

Noted surgeons

details List of surgeons

• Sushruta (the first to document an operation of open rhinoplasty)
• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (considered the father of modern 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

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