Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery, 27th Edition

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES: The Science of Surgery. Metabolic response to injury. Shock and blood transfusion. Wounds, healing, tissue repair. Tissue engineering and regeneration. Surgical infection. Tropical infections and infestations. Basic surgical skills and anastomoses. Principles of laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Principles of paediatric surgery. Principles of oncology. Surgical audit. Surgical ethics and law. Patient safety and human factors and quality improvement. PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS. Diagnostic imaging. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. Tissue and Molecular diagnosis. PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE. Pre-operative preparation and treatment of the High-Risk Surgical Patient. Anaesthesia and pain relief. Nutrition and fluid therapy. Postoperative care. Day case surgery. PART FOUR: TRAUMA. Introduction to trauma. Early assessment and management of trauma. Traumatic Brain Injury. Neck and spine. Maxillofacial trauma. Torso trauma. Extremity trauma. Disaster surgery. Conflict Surgery. PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS. History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease. Sports medicine and sports injuries. The spine. Upper limb. Hip and knee. Foot and ankle. Musculoskeletal tumours. Infection of the bones and joints. Paediatric orthopaedics. PART SIX: SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE. Skin and subcutaneous tissue. Burns. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. PART SEVEN: HEAD AND NECK. Cranial Neurosurgery. The eye and orbit. Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws. The ear, nose and sinuses. Pharynx, larynx and neck. Oral Cavity Premalignancy & Cancer. Disorders of the salivary glands. PART EIGHT: BREAST AND ENDOCRINE. The thyroid glands. The parathyroid glands. The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorders. The breast.

Professor Sir Norman Williams, MS FRCS FMedSci FRCP FRCP(Ed) FRCA FDS(Hon) FACS(Hon) FRCS(I)(Hon) FRCS(Ed)(Hon) Senior Clinical Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health, Past President, The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2011-2014, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Professor Sir Norman Williams was until recently Professor of Surgery at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry and Director of the National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation (1986-2016) and retains the title of Emeritus Professor of Surgery. He trained in London, Bristol, Leeds and Los Angeles His main clinical interests have been sphincter preservation and reconstructive colorectal surgery, and his scientific interests concentrated on GI motility and anorectal physiology. He is now the Senior Clinical Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health and on the Board of St George's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.

He has been President of the Society of Academic & Research Surgery, President of The Ileostomy & Internal Pouch Support Group, Chairman of the UKCCCR committee on Colorectal Cancer, President of European Digestive Surgery, President of The International Surgical Group and Vice Chairman of The British Journal of Surgery. He was on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 and became President in 2011-14.

Professor Williams is co-author of Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon and was a founding trustee and Chairman of Bowel & Cancer Research and is now the President of this charity. He has been joint editor of Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery since the 22nd Edition. He was knighted for services to surgery in 2015.

This book simply smacks of class; I have had the privilege of reviewing the hardback edition which is a robust and physically heavy book.  This is a powerful heavyweight textbook that seems to cover most surgical specialties and is suitable for a global audience. Even better, its appeal is widespread throughout various sectors of the medical and surgical community. If you are a practicing physician and just need one surgical textbook as a reference source for your personal or departmental library, this excellent book could fit the bill. It is also very useful for the undergraduate or postgraduate medic no matter where you are in the world. So it is very adaptable to a number of end users.
Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia, May 2018, Full review: http://www.glycosmedia.com/bailey-and-loves-short-practice-of-surgery-2/

This is a high-quality book on an international level that provides significant additional illustrations and discussion of problems encountered. It is thus a highly valuable resource for students, residents, and surgeons who will be practicing outside the U.S. (or doing surgical volunteerism). There is nothing comparable to the Bailey textbooks. This 27th edition nicely updates and enhances information from the 26th edition, while remaining true to the purpose of the original.
Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)