How do I choose a surgical hospital and surgeon?

  1.Does surgery need to be done?  Generally speaking, when a patient’s friend is diagnosed locally with a disease that requires surgery, the first thing is to wonder, is surgery needed? Indeed, the indication for surgery may be completely different conclusions in different hospitals by different doctors, sometimes it is not the level of doctors is different, just a slight difference in the philosophy of different doctors, medicine is not an absolute science, so the decision should be made taking into account the risks and benefits.  2.Where to do the surgery?  The first reaction of the general public is to go to a large hospital for surgery. Admittedly, large hospitals have a large volume of surgery and may have a large number of doctors doing a certain type of surgery, but this is not entirely true. The reason is, many general minor surgeries are not carried out in tertiary hospitals, and doctors in big hospitals do less instead, so there is no need to superstitiously go to big hospitals for this kind of surgery. For high-risk major surgery, or choose a large hospital, relatively more experienced.  3.What kind of surgeon should I choose?  For example, orthopedics is subdivided into spine, joint, hand surgery, trauma, arthroscopy, bone tumor, foot and ankle, and so on. At this time, it is necessary to obtain sufficient information to find the doctor who is best at a certain surgery.  4.Where to get information from?  Nowadays, many people like to search on the internet, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The good thing is that you have a better understanding of the disease. The bad thing is that the information online is uneven and hard to distinguish without professional knowledge, so choose professional websites, such as etc., as much as possible. If you have medical friends, it will be more accurate to get information from them.