Matthew Haydock is a General Surgeon consulting from clinics in South and Central Auckland. Matthew enjoys all areas of General Surgery and has had post fellowship training in hepatopancreaticobiliary, upper gastrointestinal, abdominal transplant and vascular access surgery. He is also trained in robotic general surgery procedures. He also works at Middlemore Hospital as part of the general and vascular surgery department.
What is General Surgery?
What is General Surgery?
The role of the General Surgeon varies, but in broad terms general surgery can be said to deal with a wide range of conditions within the abdomen, breast, neck, skin and often vascular (blood vessel) system.
While the name would suggest that the focus of general surgery is to perform operations, often this is not the case. Many patients are referred to surgeons with conditions that do not need surgical procedures, but merely require counselling or medical treatment.
