Gabriel Weston

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A Surgeon's Story

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Produktbeschreibung

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?

What is it like to cut into someone else's body?

What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors?

How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live?

Gabriel Weston worked as a surgeon on the NHS frontlines; a woman in a world dominated by male egos. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary for survival. Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human dignity with compassion and insight, illuminating scenes of life and death the rest of us rarely glimpse.

'Her wisdom, empathy, morality and self-awareness are very revealing... Her writing is as incisive, precise and clean as keyhole surgery' The Times

'Brave and uncomfortable' Guardian

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409075172
• Artikelnr.: 39217387

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Weston was born in 1970. She went to Edinburgh University to read English and from there to medical school in London. She graduated as a doctor in 2000 and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. She now works as a part-time ENT surgeon. She lives in London with her husband and two children.