Primary Surgery: Volume 1: Non-Trauma

The four Primary Surgery volumes are manuals written for the non-specialist doctor and medical students. Two other volumes Trauma and Primary Anaesthesia have already been published and a fourth, Primary Mother Care is in preparation. The manuals describe what a doctor can do if s/he cannot refer a patient, both in emergency and for `cold surgery’. Surgery has become fragmented into many specialties, and these manuals select methods of whichthe generalist can make good use. Although common p…