Contents

Foreword by Sir Terence English

Prologue

1 Out of the Dark Ages

2 The Benchmark Operation

3 How Not to Lie with Statistics

4 Accurate Predictions

5 Better Out of FIASCO

6 Decisions, Decisions

7 The Trouble with Ratings

8 Curious Influences

9 Surgeons and Risk

10 The Future of Medicine

Acknowledgements

Appendix A: Still Nobody Told the Parents

Appendix B: A True Haunting

References

Further Reading