The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000. The Training and Practice of a General Surgeon in the late Twentieth Century

Contents Prologue Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 An Undergraduate at Oxford, 1962-1966 CHAPTER 2 A Student at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1966–1968 CHAPTER 3 “On the House” at St Thomas’s Hospital, 1969 CHAPTER 4 Casualty Officer and Prosector of Anatomy CHAPTER 5 Surgical Registrar at Warwick Hospital, 1971–1973 CHAPTER 6 Surgical Registrar, the Middlesex Hospital, 1973–1975 CHAPTER 7 Wellcome Research Fellow at the Middlesex Hospital, 1975-1977 CHAPTER 8 Lecturer in Surgery, University of Leicester, 1977–1980 CHAPTER 9 Consultant General Surgeon, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust, 1980–2001 CHAPTER 10 Table 10: Author’s Operations 1980-2000 CHAPTER 11 Private Practice and Independent British Healthcare plc. Appendix 1. A family with multiple endocrine neoplasia 2. A case of aortic graft infection 3. A case of morbid obesity Epilogue