War Doctor
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'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.
'One of the most brutally vivid evocations of modern warfare that you will read . . . superb, unforgettable, simply written and painfully clear' - Sunday Times
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Schockierend, qualvoll, fesselnd, aufrüttelnd - das ist eines meiner Top-Bücher dieses Jahres. David Nott erzählt von 25 Jahren Einsatz als Chirurg in Krisen- und Kriegsgebieten in aller Welt. Bis ins blutige Detail, mit herzzereißenden Geschichten. Und einem großen Schwerpunkt zum Krieg in Syrien und dem Drama in Aleppo, wo er bis hin zu Telefonaten mit Assad und Putin engagiert war, um Zivilisten und Ärzte aus der Stadt zu retten. Ein wichtiges und augenöffnendes Buch, das man nicht mehr aus der Hand legen möchte, wenn man einmal damit angefangen hat. Unbedingt lesen!
Description
'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.
'One of the most brutally vivid evocations of modern warfare that you will read . . . superb, unforgettable, simply written and painfully clear' - Sunday Times
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Schockierend, qualvoll, fesselnd, aufrüttelnd - das ist eines meiner Top-Bücher dieses Jahres. David Nott erzählt von 25 Jahren Einsatz als Chirurg in Krisen- und Kriegsgebieten in aller Welt. Bis ins blutige Detail, mit herzzereißenden Geschichten. Und einem großen Schwerpunkt zum Krieg in Syrien und dem Drama in Aleppo, wo er bis hin zu Telefonaten mit Assad und Putin engagiert war, um Zivilisten und Ärzte aus der Stadt zu retten. Ein wichtiges und augenöffnendes Buch, das man nicht mehr aus der Hand legen möchte, wenn man einmal damit angefangen hat. Unbedingt lesen!