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…
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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.…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…