Title: Surgery, then and now: A historical flashback

Biography:

Shyam Parashar is currently working at University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

I have personal experience of more than six decades of practice of surgery and have seen many surgical landmarks in my life time.  Surgery has come a long way from the practice of barber surgeons to upcoming practice of robotic surgery. We owe this progress to many stalwarts, some of whom I had the opportunity to work with.  It is a challenge for me to condense surgical history of at least five millennia in few minutes allotted to me.