General surgery and trauma.
While some degree of specialization is essential in surgery there remains a place for the general surgeon. The tendency to regard surgical intensive care as a specialty should be resisted. Similarly the surgery of trauma should remain in the field of the general surgeon in full co-operation with the orthopaedic surgeon and, in special circumstances, the neurosurgeon.
D005060:Europe; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008511:Medicine; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*