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This tale would not have been written but for the insistence of my colleagues. They, like me, have many happy memories of our time in medicine and felt that, in the rapidly changing world of the hospital from the early days of the NHS to recent times, there should be a record of what life used to be like.

I would like to pay tribute to the doctors and nurses with whom I have had the pleasure to work. Had we not all shared the common goal of seeing that our patients received the best treatment possible, no matter what the personal cost, then many of the events chronicled in this book would not have occurred and we would not be able to look back at those times with so much pleasure and satisfaction.

I would like to acknowledge the enormous part played by the theatre staff at the Westminster and Chelsea hospitals in this story. They put up with my idiosyncrasies over many years with benign fortitude.

In particular, I would like to pay a special tribute to my wife Carole, who has inspired me, cajoled me, and who has participated in so many of the events described in this book. Without her help this book would probably not have been written.

Stanley Feldman 2012