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Offer Surgery for the Right Reasons

• Appreciating the role of surgery in the wider medical

care is an important skill to develop.
• Look at the whole patient, the whole situation, rather

than simply concentrating on the bowel, the thyroid,
the arteries, the bone.

• Be pragmatic, don’t exaggerate the benefits of
surgery to promote a procedure, don’t unnecessarily
exaggerate the urgency to guide the way.

• Similarly don’t dismiss the benefits of surgery when
referring to procedures that you are not familiar or

comfortable with.