Tribute to a great pioneer urological surgeon

Chris Barnard--a personal tribute to a gifted heart surgeon and a great intellect.

To the Editor: Donald McRae’s failure to adequately acknowledge Barnard’s brilliance, leadership and great contributions in his book entitled Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart1 is disappointing. This and Peter Folb’s thoughtful and well-researched ‘Special Review’ on the book2 led me to document some of my personal experiences with Barnard in the 40th anniversary...

Harold E. Kleinert - A tribute to a pioneer

To a student of hand surgery, the mention of the name Kleinert is associated with the advances he helped to make in flexor tendon repair and rehabilitation. It is normal that a surgeon is recognised by the contributions he/she made for the growth of the specialty. With Dr. Kleinert, personally, I think it is different. I think his greatest contribution to hand surgery is the creation of the fel...

Ferdinand Sauerbruch: Pioneer Thoracic Surgeon.

George Guthrie – Soldier and Pioneer Surgeon

Health care associated infections, HCAI, have recently raised the concerns of both the public and politicians because of their significant socioeconomic burden. MRSA is a big player in the aetiology of HCAI and constitutes a major public threat presenting both therapeutic and infection control challenges in both the hospital setting and the community. This book, which consists of 16 chapters wr...

Memorial for Dr. Seyed Taghi Nourbakhsh, a Great Orthopedic Surgeon and a Nice Colleague

Dr. Seyed Taghi Noorbakhsh died in a tragic car accident on Nov 15th 2018, while on an official mission in Golestan Province in Iran. There is a great emptiness left by Dr.Noorbakhsh’s passing. He will be missed by his colleagues andthousands of his patients whom he helped during his career.In addition to being a board member of Iranian Orthopedic Association (IOA), for consecutive terms & Chie...