Acknowledgements
We would like to record our most sincere thanks to all who have contributed to the production of this book. It has been a long process and has required the help and expertise from many people. All the chapter contributors deserve special thanks. In addition further page contributions were made by Dr Zoe Astroulakis, Dr Chris Skene, Dr Rajesh Thaman, Dr Alexander Dick and Dr Ranil DeSilva.JH would like to thank the consultants and teachers from the London Chest and St Bartholomew's hospitals who offered guidance and support throughout his specialist registrar training, especially (but in no particular order) Dr PG Mills, Dr J Hogan, Dr T Crake, Dr S Banim, Dr J Sayer, Dr AW Nathan, Dr C Knight, Prof AD Timmis, Dr A Mathur, Prof MT Rothman, Dr DS Dymond, Dr JR Dawson, Dr T Koh, Dr A Deaner, Dr R Aggarwal. He would also like to extend a huge thank you to his wife and family, Jayne, Thomas, Matthew, JJ, Caitlin and Joseph.
PR would like to thank his wife for infinite patience and perseverance over long weekends where she was left to her own devices while he toiled over the manuscript.
Finally we would both like to extend a huge thank you to all the staff at OUP for their phenomenal patience and dedication for seeing this first edition through to completion.
