Crucial Controversies in Surgery

Excerpt

I am honoured to have been invited be the Editor to contribute to this issue. The challenge before me was to write a discursive piece on “Crucial Controversies in Surgery”. As a regular and privileged visitor to India in recent years, I have been fascinated and enthralled at the challenges faced by Indian surgeons in India, and at the remarkable progress made in delivering a modern service to a significant proportion of the Indian population. To a very considerable degree, British and Indian surgeons share a common heritage in the health infrastructure of the nation. Many of the great Indian medical institutions can trace their roots to the British Administration of a century or so ago, and many Indian trained surgeons have become successfully established in the UK in the past half century, within a vibrant Anglo-Indian community. …