Surgeon
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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 cutting of a body, whether human or other organism. Surgeons may be physicians, dentists, or veterinarians who specialize in surgery.
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[edit] Noted surgeons
- For more details on this topic, see List of surgeons.
- Sushruta (known as "father of surgery", inventor of plastic surgery)
- Charles Kellman (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)
- Joseph Pancoast - 19th century American surgeon
- Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
- 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
[edit] Salary
The salary for a surgeon depends on the specific speciality of surgery.
| Medical speciality | Annual salary in US [1] |
|---|---|
| Brain surgeon | $600,000 [2] |
| Orthopedic surgeon | $289,000 |
| General surgeon | $206,100 |
| Ear/nose/throat surgeon | $199,200 |
| Plastic surgeon | $317,000 [3] |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Unless else specified in table, then ref is:'Integrated Care' Practices Adjust Pay, Seek New Markets as Budgets Shrink Physician Compensation Report, June, 2002]
- ^ wiki.answers.com
- ^ mdsalaries.blogspot.com taking the mean values between: Houston, TX: $300.000, Los Angeles, CA: $326.000, Miami, FL: $300.000, New York, NY: $341.000, Seattle, WA: $317.000.
[edit] External links
- Surgeons Net Educational Site
- An On-Line Surgery Journal Club (via JournalReview.org)
- American Surgical Association
- Unmanned robot surgeon
- The Imperial College London Surgical Societyca:Cirurgia
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