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HERNANDEZ VAREA, José Antonio  e  ROIG ALVAREZ, Tania. Meditate about the pragmatism in surgery. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

The peculiarity of the Surgery of including technical and manual abilities induce the error occasionally of assigning to these the fundamental paper. For it the Practicism and the Empiricism have a fertile land in Surgery. With these premises we carry out a traverse exploratory study to the members of the surgery service in which we explore some features that manifest a pragmatic attitude before some frequent problems in the activity of the surgeons. 25 surgeons were interviewed, the age average was of 46,71 years (S.D. 9,29 years). they were features of the pragmatism, focuses characterized by the Biologism, it is ignored in the daily practice the social character of the medicine. Relationship doesn't exist between the professional category and the valuation of the social projection of the specialty, what should constitute a call of attention mainly for the most qualified personnel made responsible with the formation of the new generations of surgeons.

Palavras-chave : Surgery; Pragmatism; Empiricism; Social Projection; Philosophy.