General surgery is a technical discipline that includes general principles (such as wound healing, metabolic and endocrine response to injury), as well as the treatment of systemic and local problems in the body by surgical methods, and has influenced many surgical and basic medical branches in terms of their development.
The word surgery originates from the term ‘chirurgiae’ in Latin and means ‘manual work’. Surgery is one of the oldest branches of medicine and is based on the surgical repair of diseases, injuries, structural disorders in the body that cannot be cured by medication or other treatment methods, or the transformation of the diseased organ into its natural and appropriate form by cutting and removing.
The types of surgery are mostly referred to by the name of the organ or the system to which it is connected. Goiter (thyroid gland), breast, esophagus (esophagus), stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, hernias, liver, gallbladder, biliary tract, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical interventions are included in the field of General Surgery. When divided according to the systems; goiter surgeries, breast surgeries, esophagus, stomach, duodenal, small intestine, colon, rectum and anus surgeries, liver and hernia surgeries are covered by General Surgery. General Surgery aims to protect from surgery not only with surgery but also with preventive medicine in some cases.