Hedley PiperHedley Piper, FRCS is a retired UK consultant orthopaedic surgeon. He trained in the NHS of the early 1970s. It was a surprisingly wide general surgical exposure. At 30 with his fellowship, he moved to practise for four years as a surgeon GP in a remte town in central British Columbia, Canada. (There was a rock at the roadside testifying to this.) Fielding all the trauma of logging, farming, mining and many miles of open, unpaved roads proved the benefit of those long hours at the NHS coal face. 'Trauma' took on new perspectives! Obstetrics and gynaecology, autopsy and social pathology were all in a day's work.He refocused on orthopaedic surgery in 1978; three years of residency at McGill, Montreal, required a greater focus on the obscure details of orthopaedic pathologies. There was a lot to read and ingest. Then married with two children and nearly 10 years of very general orthopaedic practice in Montreal, hovering on the edge of academia but having to make a living, he returned to the UK in 1992 and was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Yorkshire.The irony of orthopaedic surgery is that it is the management of multiple aches and pains not really covered in formal orthopaedic training, possibly because those teaching and writing the books were still too young to actually have experienced aches and pains. The ideas in this book are based on 35 years of continuous and varied surgical practice-the problems of the knee being but a small part. Read More Read Less