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Biografieën
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.
© 2019 Picador (Luisterboek): 9781509841622
© 2020 Abrams Press (Ebook): 9781683359067
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 21 februari 2019
Ebook: 3 maart 2020
4.6
Biografieën
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.
© 2019 Picador (Luisterboek): 9781509841622
© 2020 Abrams Press (Ebook): 9781683359067
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 21 februari 2019
Ebook: 3 maart 2020
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Een indrukwekkend boek! Zeer persoonlijk en aangrijpend, geeft een rauwe inkijk in wat oorlog doet. Iedereen weet dat er doden en gewonden vallen in oorlogen, hier krijgt die vreselijke realiteit een gezicht, de verschrikkingen die gewone onschuldige burgers moeten doorstaan, en de helse omstandigheden waarin medici in oorlogsgebied hun werk moeten doen. Diep respect voor de schrijver en al zijn collega's die in zulke omstandigheden proberen te redden wat er te redden valt. Dit boek moet gelezen worden. Confronterend.
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