All correspondence to: 23 Crown Street, Harrow, HA2 0HX. Laparoscopic surgery • General surgery • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Hernia • Breast disease • Abdominal disease Consulting at London W1 and Guildford

I am a broadly trained Consultant General and Cancer Surgeon in current NHS practice, with specialist expertise in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, hernia surgery and extensive experience of breast, soft tissue disorders and complex trauma care. I have been in regular medico-legal practice for more than 20 years. I was Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology from 2003-09, since when I have been the Subject Chair for Medicine of the SCOPUS curation system for some 8,000 academic journals...