What is the difference between an orthopedic surgeon and a cardiologist?

Answer 1

Orthopaedics - is the traditional spelling. It was coined in 1741 by Nicholas Andry when he published his workOrthopaedia: or the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children. It is derived from "orthos" (meaning straight or correct) and "paideion" (meaning child). In actuality is was the study of correcting childhood deformities.

Orthopedics or Orthopedic Surgery - is defined as the branch of surgery which deals with conditions of the musculoskeletal system.

Incidentally, the United States uses the orthopedic spelling, while the rest of the world uses the traditional spelling of orthopaedic. However, most residency programs, universities, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Association us the traditional spelling.

Either spelling is acceptable and most spell checkers will ignore either spelling counting it as correct.

Answer 2

A cardiac surgeon is a surgeon, obviously, who goes through a general surgery residency and then a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship. An interventional cardiologist is a cardiologist, not a surgeon, who completes an Internal medicine residency, a cardiology fellowship, then an interventional cardiology fellowship.

Answer 3

A nurse has an R.N. or L.P.N. degree. A cardiologist has an M.D. degree, three years of internal medicine residency training, and at least three years of cardiology fellowship training after that.

Answer 4

In general terms, both treat problems of the musculoskeletal system but the rheumatologist does it mostly with medication and the orthopedic does it with surgery. For oversimplification: a disease would be treated by the former and a sports injury would be treated by the latter

Answer 5

A nurse has an R.N. or L.P.N. degree. A cardiologist has an M.D. degree, three years of internal medicine residency training, and at least three years of cardiology fellowship training after that.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

quite simply a orthopedic surgeon is A) a surgeon and B) preforms surgery to repair joints a cardiologist uses non-surgical techiques to treat the heart

Answer 8

one specializes in surgery on the heart and the other specializes in surgery on the blood vessels of the heart