In 2023, the Extract is as relevant now, as ever, with the War in Ukraine raging, in which a pro-Kremlin Russian spokesman, when questioned determinedly by the BBC’s Ms Joanna Gosling last week (18-19 January 2023) chose not to dispute the suggested Russian casualties of 117,000, a figure Ms Gosling observed, was fast approaching the number of American soldiers killed in the First World War during 1917-1918.Įverything that Doctor Nott writes of in War Doctor is as relevant today as when it was written.

I will quote verbatim one passage on pages 314-321. I have also quoted elsewhere from his book War Doctor - Surgery on the Front Line published by Picador, and the Sunday Times No. On this website I have, several times referred to Dr David Nott’s pioneering work in the business of being a front-line surgeon in the worst war-ravaged areas in the world for much of his life.ĭr Nott has, with his wife Eleanor, set up the David Nott Foundation, being awarded charitable status in July 2015.

I measure their plight against the plight of billions in decades before them, down merely the last hundred years I recall the horrific newsreels I read afresh with that same horror the reports I first read sixty years ago. This morphed into the simpler Dispatch and then took something of a leap across platforms to Moments from History, (MfH 25) under the title When Men Drag Their Feet and Bewail Entanglement ~ SYRIA.Īt that time I wrote: In the midst of Covid, I have little patience with young people who find themselves in lockdown on Campus when I consider their plight - “we can’t wash our clothes, we’ve been given no food … “ and so on, and so on, and so on. The Review started life as a Liverpool Dispatch on 27 September 2014, I was full of hope.

Please check out his book “War Doctor” for an inspiring readĪlso check out his foundation that supports training surgeons in war zones.Ī big thanks to Patrick Georgoff for making this happen.This Review has quite a history. He has provided surgical treatment to the victims of conflict and catastrophe in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Chad, Darfur, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Central African Republic, Gaza and Nepal. Professor Nott also performs vascular and trauma surgery at St Mary’s Hospital and cancer surgery at the Royal Marsden Hospital.įor the past twenty three years David has taken unpaid leave each year to work for the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria Relief. David Nott has been a Consultant Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for 23 years where he specializes in general surgery.

War Doctor by David Nott