In his 2001 presidential address to the Canadian Association of General Surgeons, the author offers advice to young surgeons, based on his lifetime experience as a surgical educator, researcher and practitioner. He offers the following samples of wisdom for young surgeons: they should be prepared for a lifetime of learning and be willing and able to adapt to new advances; they should listen to ...

Clevedon has lost a good friend and skilful practitioner by the death of Walter Hill on June 2nd, while to his former colleagues at the Bristol Royal Infirmary his untimely and unexpected death at the age of 53 makes a deeply-deplored gap in the alumni of the Bristol School, where he entered as a student in 1880, subsequently taking his M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. Remarkable for his quiet, almost ret...

Lists of these coinages have been separately published by King-Hele but it is good to have them spelled out here in conjunction with the detailed criteria involved. No one could know more about the doctor's originality, sources and impact than King-Hele; and the concordance must surely stand as a triumph of meticulous expertise. I would imagine it was compiled without a computer-King-Hele's eas...

conclusions penetrating trauma from wooden fragments provides a diagnostic challenge. a stubborn discharge from a wound must always raise the suspicion of retained fragment. early and appropriate surgical exploration is imperative. introduction in contrast with victims of major trauma, patients who suffer minor injuries receive little specialist input. in most cases, this causes no difficulty, ...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-For upwards of forty years I have lived the busy life of a general practitioner attached to a small hospital in a provincial town. This demanded all my attention and most of my energies, but somehow within the last few years, I have been pitchforked into the arena of medical politics, and in that field great honours have been bestowed upon me. The very greatest of these -t...

We have once more to record the death of one of the former Presidents of our Society. Dr. J. G. Davey died on February 20th, at the advanced age of 82. He began his professional life as a general practitioner, but circumstances soon transferred him to the special branch of medical work which he continued to the end, viz., the treatment of lunacy and the care of the insane; and it will be seen f...

CLINICAL MEDICINE. By Jessie Garrard and Sir Max Rosenheim. (Pp. 174. £1.40). London: Balliere, Tindall & Cassell, 1970. THIS book was written primarily for medical students starting clinical work. It will also be of considerable value to house officers and those entering general practice. It is concerned primarily with the individual patient, his relationships to his family and community and t...