March 2015

LSA President, Dr Ewen Forrest shakes hands with his counterpart, Dr Richard Wadsworth, President of the Section of Anaesthesia of the MMS.

The joint meeting turned out to be yet again of excellent quality with four speakers who knew all about the topics on which they presented. Perhaps the most insightful was Professor Ben Bridgewater's talk around the information that we give to patients about outcomes. The website of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery has some very insightful facts for patients and Professor Bridgewater suggested that anaesthetists should be more transparent about themselves and their own practice. Clearly he may have a point if we want to style ourselves as 'Peri-operative Physicians'.