Another unconventional choice from President-Elect Obama, as Howard Kurtz reports that CNN's Sanjay Gupta appears on the road to be tapped as Surgeon General.

A San Francisco transplant surgeon accused of hastening the death of man so his organs could be harvested has been ordered to trial for felony dependent adult abuse.

Surgeons are taller and more handsome than physicians, finds a study in this week’s Christmas issue of the BMJ.

A gender difference exists among surgeons who choose a surgical subspecialty, particularly when they evaluate the factors that may influence their career choice, according to results of a new survey published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Forty-four percent of surgeons do not refer the majority of their breast cancer patients to a plastic surgeon prior to the initial surgery when the woman is choosing her treatment course, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.