Charming Surgery: A Reflection on the Surgical Specialty

The perfect examination, a clinical working diagnosis and its paraclinical confirmation, decision making processes, the suitability of the procedure, the cooperation of colleagues both our own and from different specialisations. Surgery is a profession of the heart and soul, serving the widest common community and, at the same time, the most inward expression of the individuality of every person involved in its range – professional, personal, family, physical, psychological, spiritual, civil, academic and social.