Surgeons Agreeableness

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For every job and every career you have throughout your life there is always certain characteristics or traits that make you qualify for that job. For surgeons’, emotional stability and agreeableness are key traits to success. Emotional stability is the quality of feeling stable in emotion. Agreeableness is to agree to another’s liking. Emotional stability and agreeableness are necessary to be a successful surgeon for composure, successful operations, and personal gratification.
Composure is being in control of your own emotions and self. For a surgeon, composure can mean the life or death of their next patient. According to Royal College, there is a higher percentage of surgeons that are conscientious compared to other medical practices. (Drosdeck) In another source, 70.3 hours per week was the average for surgeons, but the desire for new …show more content…

“As surgeons, we are able to test our hypotheses and see rapid, graphic results from our work. It is immensely satisfying to completely excise a cancer, convert a cold, bluish ischemic limb to one that is warm and pink, relieve the pain of an intraabdominal catastrophe or help a scarred patient gain better appearance and function.” (American College of Surgeons) This states that their satisfaction comes from seeing successful operations, thus their emotional stability is boosted and well maintained with successful operations. 94.5% reported in a study, that as surgeons they would take on another leadership role. (Guy, Hussain,, Sprague, Mehlman, Dogbey, Bhandari.) This shows how willing they are for their next role as a leader with in the career of surgery, which creates the conclusion that they would want successful operations to continue this. Not only do surgeons want to keep this leadership role, but they would be agreeing to want that role. Personal gratification, is an immense reason for emotional stability and

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