{"product_id":"the-careful-surgeon-stories-of-light-courage-and-compassion-in-the-face-of-darkness-hardcover","title":"The Careful Surgeon: Stories of Light, Courage and Compassion in the Face of Darkness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShehan Hettiaratchy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teenage victim of a knife attack. A young girl who has nearly lost her leg in a boating accident. A survivor of a major terrorist attack at Westminster Bridge. Trauma surgeon Shehan Hettiaratchy has seen all these people on his operating table. In \u003ci\u003eThe Careful Surgeon \u003c\/i\u003ehe explains how it feels to take the lives of these people into his hands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRadiant with light and darkness, this is a book full of scenes of life and death that the rest of us rarely even glimmer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShehan Hettiaratchy is one of the UK's Leading Surgeons, Major Trauma Director of one of the busiest Trauma Centres in London, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Professor of Practice at Imperial College and National Advisor to the NHS on Armed Forces healthcare. He led the team treating victims of the Grenfell fire and the Westminster Bridge attack (as documented by BBC's \u003ci\u003eHospital\u003c\/i\u003e), amongst other tragic events that have occurred in our city in recent years. He has been named as a \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Health Hero of the Year and included as part of \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e Alternative Rich List. He has served in the British Army since he left school as a regular and reservist, serving mainly with Airborne Forces, and was deployed to Afghanistan twice. He has worked in war zones (Abkhazia, Georgia, Chechnya, Kosovo) and disaster areas (the Haiti earthquake) with various UK NGOs. Since 2022 he has worked with UK-Med on surgical missions to Ukraine and Gaza. He was awarded an OBE in 2025 for his humanitarian work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 9.31 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49548058755224,"sku":"9781529350654","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/5W0mb80Yqb9781529350654.webp?v=1784860224","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-careful-surgeon-stories-of-light-courage-and-compassion-in-the-face-of-darkness-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}