What can be done within 600 days?

Aim: In our country recently graduated general practitioners and specialists are subject to compulsory public service for two years. We aimed to evaluate factors effecting operations performed by young pediatric surgeons during this period. Material and Methods: We retrospectively analysed the operations between February 2009-December 2011 performed by a pediatric surgeon under general anesthesia in Konya Education and Research Hospital. Results: A total of 452 patients were operated under general anesthesia.A total of 166 (36.7%) circumcisions were performed. Besides a total of 286(63.3%) patients were operated for the treatment of inguinal region pathologies (n=176; 61.5%), acute abdomen (n=73; 25.3%), urological disorders (n=27; 9.5%), neonatal diseases (n=8; 3%), and trauma (n=2; 0.7%). Conclusion: Pediatric surgeons are performing operations in parallel with the level of education they received, infrastructure, and facilities of the hospitals they are working. Experience and team work is very important. Patients with rarely seen complicated cases that need multidisiplinary evaluation should be referred to relevant centers of pediatric surgery.