General surgery is treatment of medical disorders by operative procedures. It is frequently performed to alleviate suffering when a cure is unlikely through medication alone.

General surgery can be used for routine procedures performed in a physician's office, or for more complicated operations requiring a medical team in a hospital setting.

• skin grafts
• biopsies
• management of melanoma
• incision and drainage of abscesses
• excision of skin lesions

• single and dual chamber pacemaker procedures

• thoracoscopy: diagnostic and therapeutic
• thoracotomy for lung cancer (lobectomy/pneumonectomy)
• esophogeal surgery

• abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
• management of carotid artery disease (carotid endarterectomy)
• peripheral vascular disease
• venous disease (varicose veins)
• vascular access devices

• colectomy for benign and malignant disease
• gastrectomy
• cholecystectomy
• management of pancreatic cancer (whipple procedure)
• Nissen fundoplication (for GERD)
• herniorrhaphy

• vasectomy

• laparoscopic choleycstectomy
• laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication
• laparoscopic colectomy

• management of thyroid disease/cancer
• parathyroid disease/adenoma
• adrenalectomy

• incision and drainage of abscess
• hemorrhoidectomy
• sphincter repair for incontinence
• fistulas

• management of benign and malignant breast disease
• Mammotome Breast Biopsy System

• carpal tunnel release
• excision of ingrown toenail
• ganglion cyst

• colonoscopy
• esophogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
• flexible sigmoidoscopy
• PEG tube placement (feeding tube)