Author’s reply to Bolsin and Colson, Nelson and colleagues, and Vallance-Owen

I thank Bolsin and Colson, Nelson and colleagues, and Vallance-Owen for widening the debate on surgeon specific mortality data.1 2 3 4

Writing from Australia, Bolsin and Colson want to retain focus on surgeon culpability.2 Bolsin should have disclosed that he was the anaesthetist who triggered the Bristol Inquiry. For the sake of the profession as a whole …