The third Saturday of September is recognized in the world Day of the surgeon. It is difficult to think of a more difficult and important profession than saving people’s lives with the help of their hands and medical instruments.

This holiday is a reminder that there are heroes living next to us who do their work every day without demanding praise and awards. Unfortunately, some of them have to work in very difficult conditions, when there are not enough medicines and tools. On this day, surgeons raise important issues of providing the field of medicine with the necessary equipment and drugs, without which it is impossible to provide effective care.

The first recorded mention of surgery dates back to the 6th century AD. At that time, this work was performed by barbers. The operations were not complicated, but very painful, so the patients had to be rigidly fixed. Everything changed in the 19th century, when anesthesia appeared. After that, surgery began to develop at a rapid pace.

The latest technologies are now helping surgeons, which allow them to perform operations on the brain and eyes, transplant organs and individual tissues.