Cardiothoracic surgeons do a good job

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1455

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Alastair N J Graham (alastair.graham@royalhospitals.n-i.nhs.uk), consultant cardiothoracic surgeon

Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast BT12 6BA

EDITOR—Partridge provides no evidence to support his claims that cardiothoracic surgeons are less likely than thoracic surgeons to stage the extent of lung cancer objectively and assess the patients' fitness; he points out that they have “competing demands from a waiting list for coronary artery surgery.”1 He also says that relying on cardiothoracic surgeons to do lung resections may mean that some do too few to maintain competence. …