by PROFESSOR KHURSHEED MOOS

EVERY surgical specialty inevitably overlaps with another. For maxillofacial surgery that tends to be with ENT, plastic surgery, dental surgery and sometimes ophthalmic surgery.

For maxillofacial trauma, cleft lip and palate surgery and head and neck surgery (cancer), there is now little argument that it is primarily maxillofacial surgery. When the surgery requested is for facial deformity or aesthetic (cosmetic) surgery the issues are often more difficult for the patient and the surgeon.

by Dr NICHOLAS PADFIELD consultant in anaesthesia and pain management at Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Trust

“Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.”

There you have it: that is the core definition by the International Association for the Study of Pain.

by Dr MICHAEL GOSS MA MB BChir MD FRCP, consultant neurologist and founder member of the Expert Witness Institute (MEWI)

CONSULTANT neurologists undergo the longest training in clinical practice and it would be true to say that we never stop learning – both from advances in science and from our patients.

by Dr BASHIR QURESHI FRCPCH, FRCGP, expert witness in cultural, religious and ethnic issues in litigation, Community Child Health Medical Officer in London 1972-1998, medical member of child protection panels in London 1986-1998.

IT IS paramount for the legal assessment in a suspected child abuse case to select one or more appropriate expert witnesses. A cutback may prove to be a false economy.