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Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Hardcover)
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Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Hardcover)
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List price R526
Loot Price R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
You Save R98 (19%)
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'It's a brilliant book... There are lessons in every paragraph...
Get it now.' Chris Evans 'Wonderous and wild. I loved this book'
James Nestor, bestselling author of Breath 'Moving, raw and
unflinching' Julia Samuel, bestselling author of This Too Shall
Pass 'Incredible storytelling' Dr Rangan Chatterjee, bestselling
author of Feel Better in 5
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How do you carry on when things go deadly wrong? When Dr Rahul
Jandial operated on Karina, an eleven-year-old girl whose spinal
cord was splitting in two, he had to make an impossible decision.
He followed his head over his gut and Karina was left permanently
paralysed, altering both patient and surgeon's lives for ever. This
decision would haunt Rahul for decades, a constant reminder of the
fine line between saving and damaging a life. As one of the world's
leading brain surgeons, Rahul is the last hope for patients with
extreme forms of cancer. In treating them, he has observed humanity
at its most raw and most robust. He has journeyed to unimaginable
extremes with them, guiding them through the darkest moments of
their lives. Life on a Knife's Edge is Rahul's poetic and
beautifully written account of the resilience, courage and belief
he has witnessed in his patients, and the lessons about human
nature he has learned from them. It is about the impossible choices
he has to make, and the fateful consequences he is forced to live
with. From challenging the ethics of surgical practices, to helping
a patient with locked-in syndrome communicate her dying wish to her
family, Rahul shares his extraordinary experiences, revealing the
depths of a surgeon's psyche that is continuously pushed to its
limits.
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