Super especialização na cirurgia geral : problema ou solução?

Abstract

Nowadays, general surgery is considered as a tiring and uninteresting specialty. It is believed that the advent of new technologies, the internet, videosurgery, robotics, telemedicine, specialization and the indifference of recently graduated for the general surgery may be factors that had contributed to this change. In this article the changes of general surgery practice in Brazil, in the world an their consequences in the general surgeon professional development are being discussed.