Surgeon

medicine · doctors · operating rooms

Years of training. Surgeons go to medical school for years, just like regular doctors, and then spend several more years learning how to perform surgery safely and skillfully.

Expert with tools. Surgeons use special instruments and techniques to carefully cut into the body, fix what's wrong, and close everything back up so people can heal.

Many specialties. Some surgeons focus on the brain, others on hearts, bones, children, or cancer, depending on what they want to become really good at.

Long procedures. Operations can take anywhere from minutes to many hours, and surgeons have to stay focused and precise the entire time.

Team leaders. Surgeons work with nurses, anesthesiologists, and other specialists in the operating room to keep patients safe during surgery.