The Careful Surgeon
Finding light, courage and compassion in the face of life and death
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The Careful Surgeon
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In this powerful, blood-stopping and incisive insight into the life of a trauma surgeon, Shehan takes us into the heart of what it takes to train, practice, perform and - mostly - perfect his surgical skills. Through real-life case studies of patients, he explains how the emotional connection he makes with them must be set aside the moment he takes a knife to cut them open.
With unflinching honesty, he shows us how things can go wrong within a heartbeat and how, when the darkness sets in, he is able to get up and do it all over again. For, ultimately it is Shehan's patients who show him the light - coping with the very worst life can throw at them, fighting their way back to life - and allow him to do the job he so loves.
Radiant with light and darkness, this is a book full of scenes of life and death that the rest of us rarely even glimmer.©2026 Shehan Hettiaratchy
Critic Reviews
Gripping, harrowing and inspiring - a book about saving lives, losing lives and the stubborn hope that keeps a surgeon going.
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