SURGEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER: WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF PHYSICIANS AND DOCTORS?

Ask a surgeon keynote speaker and healthcare futurist: What’s coming next for the field? Upon doing so, you may get some interesting takes on future trends and new workforce innovations. But it also bears thinking about who will be influenced and impacted by all these changes. As a surgeon keynote speaker, I thought we might quickly recap for those outside the field the different types of surgeons and surgical specialties:

• General surgeons – Perform a wide variety of abdominal, endocrine, oncologic, pediatric, vascular, trauma, and other surgeries.
• Cardiothoracic surgeons – Operate on the heart, lungs and esophagus as any surgeon keynote speaker can tell you. Think heart surgery like bypasses, valve repairs, and lung procedures.
• Neurosurgeons – Perform surgeries involving the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and neuromusculoskeletal system.
• Orthopedic surgeons – Operate on the musculoskeletal system including joints, bones, ligaments, tendons, muscles. Knee and hip replacements are common procedures for them as surgeon keynote speakers tell it.
• Plastic surgeons – Reconstruct, repair, or aesthetically enhance parts of the body through procedures like facelifts, breast augmentation, cleft palate repair.
• Otolaryngologists – Operate on the ears, nose, throat, head, and neck regions. Commonly called ENT surgeons.
• Ophthalmologists – Perform eye surgeries like cataract removal, LASIK, cornea transplants, glaucoma treatments.
• Urologists – Like any surgeon keynote speaker would note,  treat conditions related to the urinary tract and male reproductive organs through surgeries like vasectomy or kidney stone removal.
• Obstetricians/gynecologists – Perform surgeries on the female reproductive system like hysterectomy, ovarian cyst removal, cervical procedures.
• Trauma surgeons – Treat injuries that require immediate invasive surgical intervention, often in emergency settings.
• Pediatric surgeons – Perform surgeries on babies, children, and adolescents like congenital defect repairs and appendicitis.