Road to become Best Surgeons?

Best surgeons have gifted qualities which helps them to attain sound knowledge & efficient skills which brings safety and comfort to their patients while maintaining a good rapport with everyone surrounding him. Well it seems easy but in reality it's really impossible to get settled with all people with different nature. Documented qualities of becoming a best Surgeon appear supernatural and are hard to implement. What we see now a days is, smooth talkers gained the popularity and are tagged as "the best".

Surgeon job and their training takes most of their time and left them short time for explanations, communication and socialism. Those who manages it beautifully are good Surgeon.

The term Best Surgeon has different values for different categories of people like Best surgeons among Surgeons are those who can deal with their complications efficiently. Best Surgeon among OT staff and Hospital are those who can finish their work & Surgery rapidly with full patient safety. Best Surgeon among the patients are those who can understand their problems and treat them well with full satisfaction. Best Surgeon among patients relatives are those who talks politely, have all guest facilities. According to their values patient and their relatives choose a Surgeon for their problems but ideally they should select the one who correctly diagnosed their illness and treat them with safe procedure having a good success record for it.

Surgeon treat with surgical instruments, a single act of error, negligence or ignorance can lead him to court compensation and even can land up in violence by patient relatives. These all things happen because of lack of time Surgeons have for explaining benefits and harms of a Procedure and probable complications, sometimes emergency procedures left Surgeon with no time to even explain relatives as patient life is of utmost importance. Lack of time because of any reason is the cause of hatered among patient relatives and fellows.

All Surgeons and juniors who wish to become Surgeon must understand How to operate, when to operate and when not to operate. My mentor used to say when you offer a surgery to a patient many patient and their relatives thinks that a Surgeon will always recommend Surgery, so we should let a patient seek a Surgeon for surgery means offer all choices to him and let him choose surgical option.

To become a best Surgeon, one should master qualities of many professions including computer memory, clock's accuracy, investigator's curiosity, philosopher's wisdom, craftsman's art, clairvoyant's telepathy, scientist's knowledge, engineer's precision, observer's vision, Goldsmith's honesty, historian's embodiment, detective's suspicion, judge's fairness, lawyers reckoning, diplomat's tactfulness, pilot's decision making, endurance of a long distance Lorry driver, communication skills of a TV presenter, serenity of a true believer and sociability of generous host. There is never enough time to gain these qualities during training nor these can be implemented in real life practice on daily basis.

Advertising genuine qualities is not even allowed but the quacks and fake ignores both honesty and restrictions. I think before switching to money making career one should have all the qualities, one should love the job's doing with a privilege of saving lives, being needed to alleviate misery, useful for people with the attitude of contribution for the betterment of the society. Many Surgeons do practice in all circumstances by managing all these aspects even among the worst patient scenerio and are regarded as the true best Surgeons.

We are working in a society where many people think bad for this profession, they don't respect and had taken life of doctors and Surgeon out of anger but these best Surgeons have learned to deal with them by their observation and experiences.

What I think is we are service providers so customer is always right but still we should not try to win over all patients, battles and peoples otherwise we will loose our selves. We should be ourself and behave properly, adequately according to circumstances. We should know our limits. Sometimes loosing some battles and patients is good for a long-term investment keeping our mind soul healthy. We should keep our decision specific to avoid doing harm of ourselves, patients & others. Explain your decisions sharply and softly and consistently to patients. Avoid promising to them which you can't keep.

Say no with a smile for any impossible or unreasonable request made by patients. Document facts and complications with proper signed consent. Convey any bad news with empathy to a sensible relative first then gradually to others as any bad news is devastating for them and others.

A problem with our world is knowledgeable is full of doubt while ignorants are full of confidence. Trust God which you can't control. Eventually you will get what you deserve as they would never tag good as bad.