If the show portrayed general surgeons as administering chemotherapy or radiation or doing brain or heart surgery, sure, that's not realistic. However, general surgeons make cancer treatment decisions all the time. It's what we're trained to do. 2/
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Indeed, when I'm asked if a woman with breast cancer, for example, should seek out a breast surgeon rather than a general surgeon, my answer is: It depends. 3/
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The vast majority of breast cancer surgery in the US is done by general surgeons because there aren't enough fellowship-trained breast surgeons and surgical oncologists. 4/
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So, I tell them that a general surgeon who does a lot of breast surgery, as many community surgeons do, is perfectly fine unless you have a very complicated case. 5/
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Some of the best GI cancer surgeons I've ever known, whom I trained under, were general surgeons who never did a fellowship. The best thyroid surgeon I ever knew...ditto. 6/
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I didn't mean to go off like this, but reading a contemptuous reference to "just general surgeons" in that context DEFINITELY rubbed me the wrong way—big time. 7/7
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