War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
David Nott, "War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line"
English | ISBN: 1509837027 | 2019 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 523 KB
English | ISBN: 1509837027 | 2019 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 523 KB
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.
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