War Doctor
Surgery on the Front Line
Buchbeschreibung
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller
‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria. But he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.
Driven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help others and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he is now widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. But as time went on, David Nott began to realize that flying into a catastrophe – whether war or natural disaster – was not enough. Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he has gained, training other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets.
War Doctor is his extraordinary story.
Bewertungen & Rezensionen
4,8
★★★★☆108 Bewertungen
Originell · Handlungsfokus · Inspirierend
4,8
★★★★☆93 Bewertungen
Fesselnd · Glaubhaft · Ruhig
May
Absolutely amazing to hear what war is really like from the viewpoint of surgeons who see and treat mass casultiesEin Muss
Buch★5
Inspirierend · Meisterwerk · Originell · Gut geschrieben
Sprecher*in★5
Fesselnd
- Not easy to take in, but it’s a wonderful book. I couldn’t stop listening.
Tina
Buch★5
Sprecher*in★5
- Intressant men för lång. Många medicinska termer som inte alltid förklarades.
Anders
Buch★4
Sprecher*in★5
- Incredible listen
Sarah
Buch★5
Sprecher*in★5
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