Man’s inhumanity to man is laid bare: the child made pregnant by rape suffering days in labour the male nurse imprisoned by the Taliban for cutting his beard to fit inside his surgical mask the terror tactic of mass amputations amateur explosives designed to inflict ghastly damage on the human body. He acknowledges himself to be driven by a mix of altruism and selfishness, an endorphin rush that comes from “chasing the high of intervening to save lives but also of living my life closer to the edge”. Since 1993, he has been taking unpaid leave from his position in three NHS hospitals to work in the conflict zones and places of humanitarian crisis that continue to dominate the news - Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza, and Syria, the place to which he is most drawn. DAVID NOTT, a vascular and general surgeon, is widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world.
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