description: Jonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ship's medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma, Kurdistan, America, Mozambique, England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid, moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings, because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a process of treating the casualties, for life is a war, and being a doctor is serving in that war. 'His account is born of two to save lives and to bear witness. The result is a unique mixture of biography and reportage, both personal and clinical' Time Magazine
language: English
title: The Dressing Station : A Surgeon's Odyssey
titlecomplete: The Dressing Station : A Surgeon's Odyssey
genres: Medicine, Biography, War, Memoir, Nonfiction, Science, Medical, Africa, History, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 332
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Alan Paton Award
publisher: Picador