20th International Conference of Bulgarian Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists
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Prof. Goro Honda, a Japanese surgeon specializing in liver, pancreatic and minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery, Sofia, May 10, 2025 (BTA Photo/Milena Stoykova)
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site.btaMedical Practitioners Should Always Learn, Improve, Visiting Japanese Surgeon Goro Honda Says
Medical practitioners should know best how to approach the treatment of their patients. For that reason, they must always learn and improve, Prof. Goro Honda, a Japanese surgeon specializing in liver, pancreatic and minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery, told BTA on Saturday. He participated in the 20th International Conference of the Bulgarian Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists, held under the motto "Hot Topics in Surgical Oncology and Gastroenterology". The event at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) congress centre in Sofia took place from May 8 to 10.
He told BTA this was his first visit to Bulgaria. Before he came, he didn't know much about this country, but his first impressions were very good.
As for his impressions of medicine in Bulgaria, especially in his field, Prof. Honda said that, unfortunately, most of those attending the conference were from other countries, and there were not many opportunities to talk to colleagues from Bulgaria. However, he was very impressed with the training centre he visited at Plovdiv Medical University (South Central Bulgaria). In his words, even though the equipment has been imported from the USA, it is excellently applied to the training of surgeons in Bulgaria.
Asked about his opinion on the introduction of new technologies, such as robotics and artificial intelligence, into the training of new surgeons, Prof. Honda said he was among the skeptics about robots in surgery. A robot is a very expensive tool and while artificial intelligence can assist in diagnosis, they cannot replace humans. Patients are always human, he argued. Medical practitioners should know best how to approach the treatment of their patients. For this reason, they must always be learning and improving, he added.
He went on to say that the techniques that are being developed are getting better. In the coming years, there will be many surgeries that will be guided with the help of robotics. This is very interesting for surgeons who are trained to use them, he commented.
At the conference in Sofia, he gave a presentation on the anatomy of the liver and how surgeons are able to perform interventions inside the liver. The liver may look like a piece of meat, but inside it there is a unique anatomy that is very complex and it takes a surgeon to know it to be able to operate on it, Prof. Honda told BTA.
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