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The first surgery to ever be performed occurred during 3000 B.C. by Sushruta. But it wasn't always so clean and neat. In fact, surgery was not considered safe until less than a hundred years ago.

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Some famous surgeons are Denton Cooley, Ben Carson, Harvey Crushing, and Victor Chang.

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This job benefits society because it helps people stay alive and maintains the population.

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Some of the tools that you would use would be scalpels, your brain and knowledge, scissors, suture thread, needles, suction tubes, clamps, and other surgical instruments.

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If you were a surgeon, you would work in a hospital. Specifically, you would perform surgeries in an O.R., or an operating room.

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The kind of work you would do as a surgeon are fixing people's medical problems, solving/figuring out what is wrong with someone, saving lives, and operating on patients.

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The education requirements that must be met are earning a doctoral degree, and attending medical school for four years.

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Surgeons get paid around $300,000 to $580,000 per year

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- Surgeries could last anywhere from 1 hour to 15+ hours, depending on the difficulty and where on the body the surgery is being performed.
- As weird as it sounds, some surgeons have actually left their surgical instruments inside of the patients body! It happens so often that it is labeled as common.