Patrick Addison a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Edinburgh, Scotland with responsibility for adult and paediatric services at St John's Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He has a specialist interest in cancer and trauma reconstruction, facial reanimation and paediatric plastic surgery and burns.  He has published extensively and presents regularly at international conferences. Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY – Oct 2013 - Nov 2014

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USA resident working patterns and on-call

As debate rages at home regarding the uneasy relationship between the restriction on trainees’ working hours, on-call patterns and the goals and outcomes of plastic surgery training programmes, it is interesting to read of similar concerns across the Atlantic. This...


Plastic Surgery Volume 6: Hand and Upper Extremity

This is the last of this six-volume textbook, which provides an almost comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of hand and upper limb conditions. This remains a formidable task, as evidenced by other more extensive hand surgery textbooks that are...


Plastic Surgery Volume 5: Breast

This volume covers all aspects of breast surgery from anatomy to aesthetic surgery and then breast reconstruction for oncological and developmental aetiologies. In particular, several well-written chapters discuss the complications of breast surgery and their management with special consideration of...