Editor: Comus Whalan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
There are many superb books on how to do operations but there are few or none on how to assist at them, and none written either by or for medical students or doctors.
Therefore, the skills that make an expert surgical assistant are difficult to acquire. Normally, they can only learn in a haphazard way, by spending years in the operating theater. This book describes those skills in a concise and systematic way, in surgery in general, and in ten different speciality areas.