Welcome to the second edition of Lecture Notes:
Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Professor Geoffrey
Chamberlain asked me to assist him with the combining
of the original well-established separate
Lecture Notes on Obstetrics and Lecture Notes on
Gynaecology by joining him as editor of this textbook
aimed at undergraduate medical, midwifery
and nursing students, junior doctors, nurses and
midwives. He told me then that he intended to retire
from the editorship for the second edition. I
owe him an enormous debt as a teacher, mentor
and guide through my career and into the complex
area of editing a book with an illustrious list of eminent
obstetricians and gynaecologists as its previous
editors. He graciously agreed to proof read this
edition and I thank him for his helpful contribution
to the final version. He continues to work as
the Emeritus Professor of History of Medicine at
the University of Wales.
In this edition I have asked two of my colleagues
at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’s Medical
School/Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital NHS Trust
to expand the sections on Sexually Transmitted
Diseases and Breast Disease to reflect the changes
in the undergraduate medical curriculum which
combines Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Breast
Disease and Sexual Health in several UK universities.
I would like to thank them both: Dr David
Lewis FRCP, MD from Sexual Health and Mr
Nicholas Beechey Newman FRCS, MS who wrote
the chapter on Breast Disease.