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The trauma chronicles
\"'Never, never, never give in', Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations (such as artificial hearts) he developed, and his research discoveries. Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern steel town, he went on to become one of the world's preeminent heart surgeons. HIs drive for perfection in his profession took him to the world-renowned Harefield Hospital, the foremost heart surgery centre in Birmingham, Alabama, the newly-created Cardiothoracic Centre in Oxford, and then in 2019 in Wuhan he was the first Western doctor to learn about Covid before the virus was identified. Following on from his two earlier best-selling works, Fragile Lives and The Knife's Edge this volume is written with humour and a doctor's reverence for life and his patients. The Trauma Chronicles gives an unmissable insight into the world of one of the greatest living heart surgeons\"--Publisher's description.
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Mr Slop does the write thing
Our columnist's professional envy leads him to conclude that he has an anger management problem.
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Five minutes with . . . Stephen Westaby
The pioneering heart surgeon and inventor explains why over-regulation of doctors is stifling innovation in improving outcomes among patients
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Poor mentoring is blamed for infant deaths after cardiac surgery at John Radcliffe hospital
The independent review of paediatric cardiac surgery and clinical governance, chaired by Bill Kirkup, was commissioned by the South Central Strategic Health Authority after four deaths of infants after cardiac surgery between December 2009 and February 2010. The review recommended more effective operational planning at the Oxford hospital; new clinical governance arrangements; an overhaul of the system for dealing with serious untoward incidents; more effective clinical and managerial leadership; and the wider adoption of techniques...
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Letters to the editor
There are multiple factors at play - not limited to, but including, the regional patient population (eg the North of England has a greater prevalence of comorbidities), unit thresholds for intervention, surgeon-specific threshold for intervention, variation in perioperative anaesthetist care, skill mix within the operating theatre team and after-care on the ward (junior staff and nurses are better at recognising postoperative complications in high-volume centres). Joel Ward Medical Student St Catherine’s College, Oxford Dilraj Kalsi Medical Student St Catherine’s College, Oxford Ashok Handa Associate Professor of Surgery and Consultant Vascular Surgeon On the other side of the curtain Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 2015: 97: 270-272 Sir, Robert Hughes penned a compelling account of his own experience with our profession in the June 2015 edition of the Bulletin. The treatment described would be a highly unusual way to manage a parotid malignancy. [...]I wonder if, in reality, he had a tonsil carcinoma with an upper jugular node metastasis?
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