title: Hamilton Bailey: master surgical author.
abstract: A small elite of surgeons have the happy ability to be great teachers whose choice of phrase, whose ability to make difficult subjects seem easy, and whose ability to stimulate their audience or readers with enthusiasm raise them high above their peers. Many great teachers merely influence their own group of students or postgraduates. Others reach a wider audience through their writings, but only a very few can be said to have had a profound effect on the teaching of surgery throughout the world and one of these was Hamilton Bailey. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his death.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008131:London