Jeremy PlewesAfter qualifying in medicine from Oxford, and then becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the author has enjoyed a varied and rewarding surgical career.
A longstanding interest in history and in teaching medical students has made it lear that an understanding of the past and how advances in medicine and surgery have been achieved makes it easier to follow the rationale for present treatments. This learning process seems as valid for nations, politicians and despots, even individuals, as for medical students and doctors.
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