C S in Surgery, a Personal Perspective.

This is a reflection of a 30-year career of a general surgeon, who has maintained a logbook of all his surgical work. Reading between the lines in this logbook, a number of essential qualities and traits needed for a successful career have been brought out. All these have been grouped into a novel way, using the letters "C" and "S" to describe each of them. Success in surgery relate to the tripod of Common Sense, dealing with the Changing Scenario, and having Civic Sensibility. Each component of this tripod is further broken down into several entities, all with the letter "C" and "S," to finally give the benefits of such qualities to the surgeon, each of which also begins with the letters "C" and "S."