Showing posts with label CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY. Show all posts

Monday, 27 October 2014

Mind what you wish for!

Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK is, as far as the General Medical Council and the Colleges of Surgery are concerned, a single specialty.

Monday, 11 November 2013

Kenneth Williams and the Future of Surgery

In the 1940s,  general surgeons operated on most body cavities, including the thoracic cavity. During the 1960s, the speciality of cardiothoracic surgery emerged - surgeons operating on 'just' the lungs, the heart and the oesophagus.