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A lifetime of experience distilled for the budding student, training doctors, professional assistants, and surgeons Surgical assisting is a unique skill. Specialist surgeons and senior registrars are often not very good assistants as their roles are entirely different to that of an assistant. Of course, as a surgical assistant, it is possible to get by just standing there and doing what you're told, but this doesn't really help the specialist surgeon and certainly won't give any satisfaction or pride to the assistant. Surgical assistants who have pride in their role and do that bit more are generally in high demand. This guide should prove useful to medical students, HMO's, registrars, nurses, doctors who may occasionally be called on to assist in theatre and those that may intend to make surgical assisting a large part of their career.

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Leeton Hocking was born in Ballarat Australia in 1957. He was educated in Ballarat and graduated from the University of Melbourne with Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1982. After graduation, he worked in the public hospital system for several years and obtained his Diploma of Obstetrics from the then Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1986.He subsequently entered Family Medical Practice (General Practice) and continued as a General Practitioner / Obstetrician for many years. He maintained his passion for surgery by continuing to assist numerous specialist surgeons whilst also continuing to practice family medicine.Over the years he has assisted many surgeons from various disciplines including Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Breast and Reconstructive Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery. Throughout this time, he has assisted with the training of medical students, and registrars in both Family Medicine and the various surgical specialties.Since 2024 he has retired from Family Medicine and continues to practice entirely as a surgical assistant at facilities in Ballarat and Geelong in Victoria Australia.He is married and has two adult sons.

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