A dark-haired gorilla on a hover bike speeds out of the city, pursued by a team of other gorillas, who are revealed to be capable of speech as they turn back and see the humans. Behind them, unnoticed by either of them, a mountain disappears, replaced by an enormous, futuristic city. 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 Africa, an archaeologist couple are examining the remains of prehistoric men. Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims.

But as time went on, David Nott began to realize that flying into 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.

'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' 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.

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