January 2015

Professor Pearse (centre) is seen with Mr Max McCormick, LMI President, (left) and Dr Ewen Forrest, LSA President (right).

The first meeting of the new year was earlier than usual but very well attended when Professor Pearse discussed patient outcomes after major surgery and in particular, his view that anaesthetists should become far more like peri-operative physicians, relegating surgeons to becoming mere technicians of the operating theatre. What a turn around that would be and something that orthopaedic departments would be very pleased to embrace?