“I don’t think Putin will ever stop trying to get Ukraine. “I don’t know how this is going to pan out,” he says. “I was working in operating theatres in Zitoma which had no windows because they had all been blown out by cruise missiles, and I had 20 surgeons watching who were really happy to see me they had patients with terrible injuries somebody with his shoulder blown off, holes in peoples’ legs – injuries that they just didn’t know how to treat.” The course has so far been viewed by 1,000 surgeons in Ukraine and saved many lives. Within 10 days of the war starting, he had put together a 12-hour Zoom course, with renowned neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, to teach surgeons essential techniques about how to deal with war injuries – fragmentation wounds, burns, mass casualty events. That surgeon, David Nott, knew exactly what he had to do. 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.In January of this year, the world’s most experienced war surgeon was working at St Mary’s, Paddington when he heard about Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border.
Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. But as time has gone on, David Nott began to realize that flying into to a catastrophe - whether war or natural disaster - was not enough. But he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.ĭriven 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. 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. 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. He needs a knighthood and his book needs to be in every house.' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurtįor 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. 'David Nott is brave, compassionate and inspiring - War Doctor is all of those things and more: a wonderful book that has left me in floods of tears.
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