Current Challenges of Surgical Care and the Transdisciplinary Model

Abstract

The delivery of surgical care has become increasingly complex especially in recent years. There have been massive developments in surgical options all with more complex decision-making processes, and thus there is a need for healthcare individuals to delve deeper into their areas of expertise resulting in subspecialisation. There is also an increasing dependence on other subspecialists with other domain expertise in the care of a single patient. Yet there is an overwhelming need for every patient to be considered as a “whole” and not just in terms of organ systems or specific pathologies. There is now a discrepancy between the comprehensive care that every patient wants and the ability of a single healthcare professional to deliver that comprehensive care.