The 10 best general and digestive surgeons Spanish chosen by their specialty companions

If you want to know who they are The best professionals of each branch of medicine in Spainthe most valued doctorschosen by their own specialty colleagues, you can discover it every week in ABC Health. The ranking is the result of the encounters collected in the health reputation monitor (MRS) prepared by Merco, to which this newspaper has had access to first.

In the first installment of this series, we met the 10 best Spanish cardiologists chosen by other heart specialists. Then came the top of the 10 best specialists in digestive system, at the discretion of other gastroenterologists; The one with the 10 best dermatologists, the 10 best oncologists, the 10 best neurologists, the 10 best hematologists, the 10 best endocrine, the 10 best pneumologists, the 10 best urologists, the 10 best nephrologists, the 10 best ophthalmologists, the 10 best grants, the 10 best anesthetists, the 10 best traumatologists and the 10 best pediatricians. Now it’s the turn of specialists most valued in general surgery and digestive system.

The MRS has been evaluating the reputation of the main actors of Spanish health more than 10 years (best public and private hospitals, services, pharmaceutical companies …). On this occasion, the report completes with the second edition of the ranking of the best doctors.

Within the same MRS questionnaire, it is the specialists themselves (6,060 doctors) and more than 100 responsible for pharmaceutical companies, which choose colleagues who, according to their criteria, are the best health professionals in 32 medical specialties.

The monitoring and verification of its elaboration and results process is the subject of an independent review by KPMG, according to the ISAE 3000 standard, which publishes its opinion for each edition. All weighting criteria are public. Because of its ethical values ​​and methodology, it is the reference ranking for doctors and scientific societies.

The ten most valued in general and digestive system

The general surgeons and the digestive system are the specialists who deal with the pathologies that mainly affect the digestive system, the endocrine system, the abdominal wall, the soft tissue and the skin of any area of ​​the body.

The most common pathologies in the consultation of these specialists are hemorrhoids, appendicitis, hernias, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, rectum cancer, granulomas, cholelitiasis, intestinal obstruction, intestinal occlusion.

This is the top 10 of the most valued by their specialty colleagues:

1.-Salvador Morales Conde. Virgen Macarena University Hospital.

Head of the Surgery Service of the Virgen Macarena University Hospital and the Quirónsalud-Sacred Heart of Seville Hospital, elected president of the European Hernia Society (EHS) and Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Seville

2.-JOSÉ VICENTE ROIG VILA. European Center for Colorectal Surgery.

Co-director of the European Center for Colorectal Surgery (Colloproctology Unit of Vithas Hospital October 9, Valencia).

3.-Antonio by Lcy Fortuny. Clinic Hospital of Barcelona.

Director of the LACY Surgical Institute (IQL) at Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona, ​​Head of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Service of the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona and the Minimally Invasive Surgery Section, Team Head at Ruber International Madrid Hospital, surgeon at Rotger Palma de Mallorca Clinic, of the Quirónsalud group and professor of surgery at the University of Barcelona.

4.-Vicente Emilio. HM Sanchinarro University Hospital.

Director of the General and Digestive Surgery Service at Madrid Sanchinarro University Hospital and Clear Camcal Oncological Center and Surgery Professor at the CEU San Pablo University.

5.-Damián García Olmo. Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital.

Head of the Department of Surgery of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation University, within the Public Hospitals Network of Quirónsalud and Professor of Surgery at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

6.-Fernando de la Portilla. Virgen del Rocío University Hospital.

Head of Coloproctology at Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, surgeon at Hospital Quirónsalud Infanta Luisa and Professor of Medicine of the University of Seville.

7.-Matten Cugat. Germans Trias I Pujol University Hospital.

Head of the Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery Unit of the University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, surgeon at Teknon Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor of General and Digestive Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

8.-Fernando Rotellar. Clinic University of Navarra.

Director of the Department of General and Digestive Surgery, European Board of Surgery in transplants and in Hepatobiopancreatic Surgery, IFSO-South of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery and Metabolic, specialist in Obesity Surgery and Associate Professor of the University of Navarra Faculty.

9.-Raquel Sánchez Santos. Vigo University Hospital Complex.

Chief of General and Digestive Surgery Service of the University Hospital Complex of Vigo, president of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery (DRY), Associate Professor of Health Sciences of Health University of Santiago de Compostela, coordinator of the Research Group Innovation in Surgery of the Institute of Health Research Galicia Sur, professor of the Master of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Vigo.

10.-Eloy Espin Basany. Vall D´Hebron University Hospital.

Head of Section at the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, coordinating the Colon and Remo Unit of the General Surgery Service; Surgeon at Teknon Medical Center and Professor of the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.