Practitioner General

• Responsibilities:

• Examining patients and making diagnoses to determine the need for surgery.
• Reviewing patients' medical history and planning the best procedure for treatment.
• Evaluating and advising patients on the risk involved with having surgery.
• Performing surgical procedures to prevent or correct injury, disease, deformities, and patient function while adhering to regulatory and ethical protocols.
• Following established surgical techniques during surgery.
• Prescribing preoperative and postoperative treatments and procedures.
• Ensuring sterility in the operating room, and all equipment and instruments.
• Directing and coordinating activities of hospital staff for proper patient care.
• Overseeing all treatments prior to and post-surgery, and identifying associated risks.
• Maintaining the highest regard for patient dignity and observing the precepts of the American Hospital Associations Bill of Rights for patients.
• Planning and executing disease/illness prevention and health promotion programs.
• Coordinating follow-up meetings with patients and monitoring their health condition after surgery or treatment.
• Conducting research to develop and test surgical techniques in order to improve procedures and surgery.