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General Surgery

Columns by practising general surgeons on operative practice in South Korea and how the decision to operate is reached.

Varicose Veins

Heavy legs and varicose veins are not the same complaint

A surgeon on why the veins a patient can see and the symptoms a patient can feel are measured separately, what the staging system is actually for, and which findings move a leg from a cosmetic question to a medical one.

Hyuk Moon Kim23 Oct 20267 min read

Gallbladder

Gallbladder polyps: who gets watched, and who gets operated on

A surgeon on why the word covers two different things, what the ultrasound report is actually being read for, and why the size on this year's scan matters less than the size on the last one.

Jong Je Sung12 Sept 20267 min read

Gallbladder

Not every gallbladder is the same operation

A surgeon on what repeated inflammation does to the anatomy, why the number of incisions is the wrong thing to compare, and why the decision that matters is the one made mid-operation.

Jong Je Sung9 Sept 20267 min read

Gallbladder

My brother had his stone broken up. Why do I have to lose my gallbladder?

A surgeon on why a stone in the urinary tract and a stone in the gallbladder are not treated as the same problem, and on the three things worth establishing before a date is set.

Jongmin Kim8 Sept 20266 min read

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