surgeons tag - The Hippocratic Post

July 1, 2024

24 doctors trained during 1st UK course with Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

For the first time in partnership with Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), we delivered a Hostile Environment Surgical Training UK (HEST-UK) course to...

January 12, 2024

Knives out! Evolving heart surgery education

Knives out! Evolving heart surgery education is crucial to equip surgeons with the skills to match the technology. An eminent heart surgeon claims the rapid...

December 12, 2023

MedGlobal Conference 2023: Building resilience amidst disaster

MedGlobal Conference 2023: Building resilience amidst disaster - We’re back from Chicago, after two days at MedGlobal’s Annual Conference 2023. The conference brought together medical...

August 3, 2023

David Nott Foundation: Becoming the calm in any storm

Dr Esayas Mustefa is the only general surgeon within a 130km radius in Ethiopia. When we trained him during one of our UK HEST courses,...

June 1, 2023

“The need in Syria is astonishing”

We’ve just returned from northwest Syria after training 35 local doctors to surgically treat complex wounds caused by the earthquake that shattered parts of Syria...

May 11, 2023

Leaving a lasting legacy with 15 Yemeni surgeons

Dr Shabnam Parkar is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. After many years treating children in the UK and providing medical...

June 18, 2018

Brave Faces – plastic surgery born in war

A century ago it was wounded soldiers, rather than celebrities, queuing for the latest plastic surgery. The First World War saw the rise of terrible...

June 21, 2017

Guiding surgeons in the dark

Surgeons often operate in the dark. They have a limited view of the surface of the organ, and can typically not see what lies hidden...

April 13, 2016

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. As a consultant surgeon at...