SURGEON''S HANDS
The article is devoted to the 70th birth anniversary of Honored doctor of Russia, a prominent surgeon of the Middle Ural, Head of the department of General Surgery of the Ural State Medical University, professor Valeriy Vasilievich Hodakov. In the article discribes the successful start of V.V. Hodakov’s career as a surgeon and scientist, and now he continues to develop and improve developed at the Department of general surgery of the Ural State Medical University worthily, diagnosis and treatment methods in the field of surgical gastroenterology, laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery