General Surgery includes the sub-specialties of colorectal surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, vascular surgery, breast surgery, endocrine surgery and transplant surgery.  In past times surgeons were very general and performed operations on all parts of the human body.  As surgical knowledge has advanced and expanded, surgeons more and more concentrate their expertise on just a few parts of general surgery.  For instance, Mr Moore was awarded the FRCS (Gen Surg) qualification which examined all aspects of general surgery but he now prefers to concentrate on abdominal, bowel, digestive and hernia disorders and he chooses to no longer operate on patients with vascular or breast disease.  In contrast, other qualified general surgeons now concentrate only on breast surgery or only on vascular surgery.  All qualified general surgeons are competent to deal with skin lumps and bumps anywhere in the body such as lipomas, abscesses, sebaceous cysts, skin tags, warts, moles, unsightly scars and navels and problem toenails.  General Surgery is often abbreviated to ‘Gen Surg’.