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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | xv | ||
| About the Author | vii | ||
| Foreword | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | xiii | ||
| PART I — How, Why, What? | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 School and War | 3 | ||
| Chapter 2 National Service in the Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
| Chapter 3 Undergraduate Training | 23 | ||
| A short description of the hospital arrangements at this time | 28 | ||
| The Specialist Departments then Started | 37 | ||
| Ophthalmology | 37 | ||
| Dentistry | 38 | ||
| Anaesthetics | 38 | ||
| Psychiatry | 39 | ||
| Neurology | 40 | ||
| Dermatology | 41 | ||
| Orthopaedics | 41 | ||
| Paediatrics | 42 | ||
| Ear Nose and Throat Surgery | 43 | ||
| Social Medicine | 43 | ||
| Gynaecology | 44 | ||
| Obstetrics | 45 | ||
| Obstetrics as a student | 45 | ||
| Forensic Medicine | 47 | ||
| Pathology | 48 | ||
| Biochemistry | 48 | ||
| Haematology | 48 | ||
| Histology and Postmortems | 48 | ||
| Bacteriology | 51 | ||
| The Beginning of the End | 51 | ||
| Time Does Not Stand Still! | 53 | ||
| Chapter 4 House Appointment at Hill End Hospital, St Albans Herts | 55 | ||
| The Second House Appointment | 64 | ||
| So to three months’ more surgery | 65 | ||
| Chapter 5 The Anatomy Demonstrator | 77 | ||
| Chapter 6 Junior Surgical Registrar | 83 | ||
| Vignettes from these years | 85 | ||
| Chapter 7 Middle Grade Surgical Registrar | 89 | ||
| Chapter 8 Senior Surgical Registrar | 97 | ||
| Chapter 9 Fulbright Scholarship USA | 101 | ||
| Chapter 10 Resident Surgical Officer, St Paul’s Hospital | 111 | ||
| PART II — The Adventures of the Fully Trained Surgeon! | 117 | ||
| Chapter 11 Consultant Urologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and St Paul’s Hospital, London | 119 | ||
| Chapter 12 Synopsis of the Various Phases of the Development of My Surgical Competence | 121 | ||
| Medical Student | 121 | ||
| Neurosurgical House Surgeon | 122 | ||
| Junior Surgical Houseman General Surgery | 122 | ||
| Junior Surgical Registrar | 124 | ||
| Middle Grade Registrar | 125 | ||
| Senior Registrar | 126 | ||
| Finally the Consultant Appointment | 127 | ||
| What was Then a Typical Day in Theatre Like as a Barts Consultant in 1978? | 128 | ||
| Chapter 13 The Building of the Department of Urology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Start of Private Practice | 131 | ||
| Chapter 14 Ancillary Events: Regional Renal Hypothermia and the Intrarenal Society | 145 | ||
| Chapter 15 Consultant Urologist, King Edward VII Hospital and the London Clinic, Civilian Consultant to the Royal Air Force | 151 | ||
| Chapter 16 Dialysis and Renal Transplantation | 157 | ||
| Chapter 17 Disaster: Acute Pancreatitis | 161 | ||
| Chapter 18 Personal Life in the 1980s and Stowe Maries, Westcott, Surrey | 165 | ||
| Other Activities | 171 | ||
| Chapter 19 The Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and the Endourology Society and Courses at the Institute of Urology | 175 | ||
| Chapter 20 A Slight Deviation — Gall Stones | 187 | ||
| Chapter 21 The Dornier Extracorporeal Lithotripter, The Academic Unit, University of London and Retirement from Barts | 191 | ||
| Back to Urology! | 191 | ||
| Chapter 22 Installation of the Dornier Lithotripter at Welbeck Street, London and the Stone Centre | 195 | ||
| Chapter 23 Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Organisation of the Academic Unit | 203 | ||
| Chapter 24 The Concept of Minimally Invasive Surgery | 219 | ||
| Chapter 25 The Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Then Therapy! SMIT | 225 | ||
| Chapter 26 Closure of the Stone Centre and the Move to Devonshire Place and the London Clinic | 231 | ||
| The Consequences of Minimally Invasive Therapy | 244 | ||
| Chapter 27 Closure of St Peter’s Hospital and the Institute of Urology and Transfer of the Rump to the Middlesex Hospital | 251 | ||
| Chapter 28 Guy’s Hospital: A New Lease of Life | 255 | ||
| Chapter 29 The Probot | 259 | ||
| Chapter 30 Postretirement from the NHS and Spreading the Word on Minimally Invasive Surgery | 271 | ||
| Chapter 31 Syclix — Now What Was I to do With My Time? | 283 | ||
| Chapter 32 The Answers to the Initial Three Questions | 291 | ||
| Chapter 33 The National Health Service and its Impact on Medical Ethics | 293 | ||
| The Ethical Changes in Medicine and Nursing | 293 | ||
| What was the Effect of this Newer Ethos on the Practice of Medicine? | 297 | ||
| 1. General Practice | 297 | ||
| 2. The Practice of Nursing | 303 | ||
| 3. The Effects on Surgical Practice | 306 | ||
| Chapter 34 The Final Words | 311 | ||
| As I Travelled Along, Three Salient Areas of Activity Became Apparent | 316 | ||
| In My Early Years, the Experience of Open Surgery | 316 | ||
| The Era of Endoscopic Expansion in Surgery and Minimally Invasiveness | 316 | ||
| The Era of Robotic Surgery | 317 | ||
| Appendix 1 | 321 | ||
| Appendix 2 | 323 | ||
| THE SOCIETY OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY INAUGURAL MEETING AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION\r | 325 | ||
| Appendix 3 | 329 |