General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus , stomach ,small bowel , colon , liver,pancreas ,gallbladder,appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. They also deal with diseases involving the skinbreast,soft tissue,trauma , peripheral vascular surgery and hernias and perform endoscopic procedures such as a gastroscopy and colonoscopy

ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease , diverticulitis , colon and rectal cancer, gastrointestinal bleeding and hemorrhoids.