After 30 years in Liverpool, where he was professor of vascular surgery, Peter Harris ended his professional life in London as a professor of endovascular surgery. This latter title reflected a career-long search for safer, minimally invasive surgeries in place of the bloody, high-risk operations that were the norm when he first started out as a consultant in 1979. He is now retired and lives in Devon and the south of France.
Blood is the life-force of every human being (and other animals). When it leaks out of our blood vessels, we die. When the aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, bursts, death usually comes quickly but for a lucky few it’s not instantaneous. For them, survival is possible with emergency surg...
