Surgical Specialties

Surgeons are medical doctors who specialize in evaluating people who have conditions best treated by surgery and have advanced expertise in performing invasive surgical operations and procedures. There are many Surgical specialties including Cardiothoracic surgery, Colorectal surgery, Dermatology, General surgery, Hand surgery, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgical Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics surgery and its subspecialties, Otolaryngology (ENT), Pediatric surgery, Plastic surgery and it’s subspecialties, Transplant surgery, Trauma surgery, Urology, and Vascular surgery. Surgeons may further specialize by limiting their practice to specific age groups, such as pediatric surgeons, who only treat children.