Many patients have been told at one time or another in their lives that they need surgery. This is indeed bad news that many people do not want to hear. Being sick and needing surgery is sometimes a last resort. Sometimes, however, there is a lot to be said for the need or lack of need for surgery. Sometimes it does come down to a toss-up. So, the decision to operate is not always in the hands of the surgeon, but sometimes as a patient, you get to have a say! Many patients do not realize that only a very small number of diseases actually require surgical treatment. This is evident from the set-up of most hospital departments. In reality, except for very few specialty hospitals, surgical departments account for a very small portion of most hospitals, and not all patients admitted to these surgical departments require surgery. In fact, except for the treatment of medical diseases, which are generally not related to surgery, most of the surgical diseases are treated conservatively, mainly with medication. Even if surgery is really needed in surgical diseases, in most cases, conservative treatment is needed before and after surgery. Therefore, for the treatment of most diseases, conservative treatment is the mainstay, while surgical treatment is only one aspect of the treatment of surgical diseases and accounts for only a small part of the treatment of all diseases. To say that surgery is only a small part of the treatment of all diseases does not mean that surgery is not important in the treatment of diseases and that it is possible to treat diseases without surgery. In fact, although surgery does not play a major role in the treatment of all diseases, it does play a very important role in the treatment of surgical diseases. Among them, surgery must be chosen for the treatment of many surgical diseases. For example, many serious traumatic injuries such as fractures, thoracic trauma, and cranio-cerebral trauma, only surgery can solve the problem. For more diseases, surgery is the first choice for treatment, such as acute appendicitis, cholecystitis combined with gallstones, and many malignant tumors. There are also some diseases that do or do not do surgery, depending on the development of the disease. Such as arteriosclerosis occlusive disease, thrombotic diseases, local infectious diseases, etc. Some diseases surgical diseases, surgery is often not considered. For example, advanced malignant tumors, patients in poor medical condition who cannot tolerate surgery, and infections that can be treated with medication alone. Whether a patient needs surgery or not seems to be easy to conclude after reading the above statement. However, due to the limitations of the level of medical development, not only is there no unified standard in the medical community on whether surgery is needed for many diseases, but even the opinions among doctors have not yet reached a consensus. Therefore, in different hospitals, doctors of different levels sometimes give different recommendations on whether the same patient needs surgery or not. Sometimes, these recommendations are likely to contradict each other. This is not surprising at all anymore. Therefore, in this case, our doctor’s advice becomes as important as the patient’s request. Therefore, if you are told that day that you need inpatient surgical treatment. Please don’t be anxious, let alone afraid. Whether you need surgery or not needs to be carefully considered by yourself. First of all, go to several hospitals with information about your condition and consult with a few specialists to get their advice. Second, find out about your condition through your friends and relatives. Again, find out about the treatment of your disease through the Internet or other means. If all these aspects support your surgical treatment. Then, listen to your primary care doctor and go ahead with the surgery. If you have any questions during the process, communicate with your primary care doctor in a timely manner, and if he tells you that you can do without it. Then, you can hold off for a while. If he tells you that it is better to do it, then listen to him and do the surgery in peace. If all parties are not in favor of your surgery, then, of course, you should not listen to your attending doctor’s opinion, do not be impulsive and do the surgery in a confused manner, so that even if you do the surgery well, you may not be solid for the rest of your life. In short, surgery must be done carefully, especially major surgery, which can sometimes be related to the fate of you and even your whole family. It is not up to your treating doctor to decide whether to do it or not. In many cases, it is up to us, the patients, to make the decision. This is not to say that the doctor does not have the authority to choose the treatment for the disease, but due to the limitations of the medical level, the doctor’s choice only takes care of the majority as much as possible, and sometimes you may not be in the majority of his care! Therefore, it is recommended that every patient who needs surgery must understand his or her disease clearly before surgery, must understand the best way to treat his or her disease clearly, must understand the advantages and disadvantages of the surgical procedure he or she wants to perform and the possible therapeutic effect after the surgery, so that if you really need surgery that day, you will have no worries before surgery and no regrets after surgery. You will have no regrets after surgery.