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Frontline - Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease (Hardcover)
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Frontline - Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease (Hardcover)
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List price R542
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Discovery Miles 4 940
You Save R48 (9%)
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A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of
impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into
the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.'
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News This is a story of tireless hard work and
astonishing bravery. Tony Redmond has deployed to wars, refugee
crises, air crashes, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, and disease
outbreaks for over thirty years. Featuring tales of hope and
redemption, as well as untold suffering and mismanagement, this
raw, honest account could only have been written by someone who has
for decades performed incredible feats of altruism. Frontline takes
the reader from the wards of Manchester's Nightingale hospital to
Kosovo, from Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak to Lockerbie, and from
Haiti to the Philippines. We find its author risking life and limb
to help those affected by events beyond their control. But while
humanitarian work and medicine require an innate goodness, not all
those involved have benign motives. And saving lives requires
difficult choices: between the desire to relieve suffering and the
need to weigh up the context. Too often medical aid is found
wanting, doing more harm than good. How are life-or-death choices
made in the heat of the moment? What are the consequences of your
action, or inaction? Is it better at times to do nothing? How do
you live with yourself if you want to help but can't? This is a
frank account of the personal toll - physical, mental and social -
emergency medicine levies on those who choose to do it. But
ultimately, Frontline offers a tale of optimism, persistence and
triumph over adversity, speaking to the resilience and fortitude of
those who help and those whose lives they save.
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