Redefining Pediatric General Surgery: A Generational Paradigm Shift Toward Specialization

Abstract

Pediatric surgeons often define the field as the “last true bastion” of general surgery. On any given day, we are called upon to care for a wide spectrum of children from the most fragile premature infants to adult-sized victims of trauma. The same surgeons are expected to have total expertise of the intertwining branches of an ever-growing neuroblastoma risk stratification schematic tree while staying up to date on the contemporary management of once-in-a-lifetime nuanced congenital diseases and anomalies.

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