One heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral account of the impossible ethical choices required by medical emergencies. 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. 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 emergency medicine levies on those who choose to do it.
- Publisher: HarperNorth
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Publication date:
09/06/2022
- ISBN: 9780008449568
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Page extent:
320
- Format: Paperback
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Dimensions:
198 mm x 129 mm
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