[Indications for surgery and operability from the point of view of the surgeon (author's transl)].

The decision as to surgical intervention and operability must also take into account somatic, personal, psychosomatic and social factors. The advances made in medical science have added to rather than detracted from the difficulties of the problem. Although the final decision rests with the surgeon the indications as to surgical intervention and operability present problems which demand interdisciplinary co-operation, first with the general practitioner, then, after admission to hospital, with the various specialists and subsequently again with the general practitioner.