title: [Quality of life and general surgery].
abstract: Currently the concept of quality of life is being discovered, analyzed and adequately defined for the field of surgery. The objective finding is being supplemented by a higher measure of subjective assessment. The aim is to intensify the individual side of the dialogue in order to achieve an approximately symmetrical partnership. As in the 19th century the faculty of medicine, including surgery, still understands itself as psychosomatic medicine; at the same time it has competency in the natural and humanistic sciences. The concept of quality of life adds useful and above all comparable parameters.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Hamburg.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Schreiber
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011788:Quality of Life; D012803:Sick Role; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Lebensqualität und Allgemeinchirurgie.