General Surgeon

General Surgeon

Do you want to save someones life? Can you work under pressure? Can you work sixty hours or more a week? If any of this sounds interesting to you, then you might want to become a general surgeon.

What exactly is a surgeon you ask, surgeons are doctors with highly specialized training that can perform surgery on any part of the human body to correct deformities and problems caused by injury or disease. For example, an orthopedic surgeon might perform surgery to repair torn knee cartilage, while a cardiovascular surgeon might do open-heart surgery to save a heart attack victim.

There are many different kinds of surgery. Neurosurgery involves operating on the brain, nerves, or spinal cord, possibly to remove a brain tumor or repair damage done in an accident. Pediatric surgery is performed on children and adolescents. Laser eye surgery is performed to reduce vision impairments