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About the product HE VISITED HELL AND BACK BACK! DAVID NOTT is a surgeon specializing in general and vascular surgery. Most of the time he works in London hospitals, but for 25 years he periodically takes unpaid leave and goes to war zones and natural disasters as a volunteer doctor. He had a chance to volunteer in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chad, Darfur, Gaza, Iraq, Libya, Sierra Leone and the territories occupied by the opposition forces in Syria, as well as in Haiti. Today David Knott is considered one of the most experienced surgeons in the world. His patients include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. «Brave, compassionate and inspiring — he made me cry.» — ADAM KEY, author of the world bestseller It Will Hurry: The Story of a Doctor Who Retired at the Peak of His Career “In such extreme circumstances, unlike David Knott, most of us will never find ourselves — fortunately! But it is necessary to understand what it is like to save people on the front line, from under the rubble, from improvised bombs. Vital». — ALEXANDER AKULINICHEV, Editor-in-Chief HEALTH MAIL.RU “A very serious work that describes in maximum detail the humanitarian mission of organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières or the International Committee of the Red Cross, told on behalf of the direct participant. This book is important for everyone to read, because it details the horrors that have taken place in theaters of military operations over the past decade and even earlier: everything that we just see in the news and do not fully realize how bad and inhuman it is. Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, armed conflicts in Asia and Africa — it seems that the author has visited almost everywhere and tried to save people everywhere. When you read such a work, you realize with horror that the world is full of radical extremists, that millions of people are still dying in torment because of political games, that adequate medicine has to be literally delivered to many places in the world by separate teams, otherwise people will simply kill each other without the slightest chance of salvation. It should be noted that most of the work goes in a rather unemotional and cold, typical for surgeons, narration. It is pleasant, because it does not impose an author’s attitude to situations and makes it possible to independently feel and evaluate what is happening. Medicine is not described much, and this is definitely good for an unprepared reader. Yes, there are amputations, there are many explanations on the physiology and technique of surgery — it will be interesting for an inquiring mind. There are also cool casuistic cases, such as a request for a technique for performing an operation via SMS — no matter how absurd it may sound, but it helped to save another life. Despite the almost complete neutrality of the book in terms of politics, in addition to further attempts to cover all the horrors in Syria in the international media, one can see hints of purely English humor there: him — not even an hour has passed since he was shot. » An absolutely wonderful work, which I will recommend to read to any person, first of all to a non-physician. It is about that hard part of life that we usually do not see, but only try to present on some memorable dates. » — NIKITA ZHUKOV, neurologist, medical director of Lakhta Clinic, author of the books «Modicina» and the blog @modicine Abstract «I have traveled the world in search of problems» — this is how the story of an adventurer seeking to test himself in extreme conditions could begin. And it would be a book about adventure, half-true and exciting. But the author of this phrase and book is not at all a traveler and is extremely far from fictional fiction, because he had a chance to face the most unattractive reality that one can imagine — war. Dr. Nott has traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other hot spots, operated and delivered to the sound of exploding shells and pulled people out of the world in conditions that had nothing to do with well-equipped European clinics. He wrote this book, trying to answer his own question: what makes the doctor go to the most dangerous places on the planet and, despite the horror that is happening around, risking his own life to do his job, to help and console people in trouble.
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