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Authors
Affiliations
1 Post graduate Trainee, Department of Surgery, Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
2 Professor, Department of Surgery, Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
Source
The Indian Practitioner, Vol 75, No 12 (2022), Pagination: 8-9
Abstract
General surgery lost much of its vigor over the last four decades due to fragmentation into super-specialties. Descent with evolution has radically reversed this ostracism with the resurgence of a new generation of revamped general surgeons. This article recounts the journey of general surgery from lag to log phase over the last few decades in the light of human evolution.
Keywords
general surgery, evolution, super-specialty, sub-specialty.
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