www.ijmbs.org ISSN: 1947-489X Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2009 71 EDITORIAL Ethics in Surgery: A Personal Note and A Call for Developing Nations

Medical ethics is becoming a very large discipline. I would like to discuss this with regard to the discipline of surgery. Surgery is a hands-on profession. Medical graduates train from six to nine years after medical school before they are given a license to practice surgery. It is not unusual for the surgical resident to learn new tricks within weeks of completing the surgical training. During these many years of training, residents learn pre-operative as well as post-operative care. They learn surgical skills and gain medical knowledge via the multiple avenues of the surgical training program. When it comes to medical ethics, most often they learn by example, and mimic behavior styles of their professors. If they train under a surgeon with an inflated ego, they often graduate with similar behavioral habits. If they spend several years training with a morally wea