Intensive care’s intensive noise problem
I remember very clearly the first time I walked onto the intensive care unit (ICU). The first thing that struck…
Surgery
Patient outcomes
Outcomes data is information about the results of surgery that can be published and used by surgeons, patients and hospitals…
Lies, damned lies and surgical league tables
My heart sank when Health minister Jeremy Hunt announced that league tables for surgeons would be published back in 2014.…
Acid attacks – A challenge for reconstructive surgeons
Following a spate of drive by acid attacks on men in East London, there are calls for tighter laws to…
Through the keyhole – improving surgical skills
One of the biggest challenges facing us in modern surgery is how to take tomorrow's surgeons from relative novices to…
Telementoring in surgery is a global revolution
MATTU, the UK’s first International Centre of Telemedicine based at Surrey University and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, has telementoring…
Depth perception in key-hole surgery
When Phillipe Bozzini first designed and used his Lichtleiter in 1803 to peer into the human body, the medical world…
Robotic Prostatectomy – The Gold Standard
In my view, robotic surgery is superior to an open radical prostatectomy. For one thing, you get a much better…
Why children should be given diet and exercise tips, NOT surgery
Obesity generally takes years to develop and hence is usually a disease of the middle-aged. Children do, of course, become…
Why Bariatric Surgery should be offered to obese adolescents
It might seem bizarre but I have to fight battles to treat my patients. Yes of course I am fighting…