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David Nott

Desert Island Discs

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I'm a Doctor, You Know, Why Are You Shooting Hospitals?

i was operating on a young lad whohad had a fragment injury to his major blood vessel in his abdomen, and a rocket had hit the hospital. And it's the first time i ever felt that, you know, hang on a minute. You know, international humanitarian law should be here to help me. Other times when you have to exit mid operation, i was in gaza in two thousand and 14 during the israeli palestinian conflict. There was a little girl that had come in with her viceration - its call where the bowels are hanging out of the abdominal wall. She'd had severe fragmentation injuries. Her a fragment had gone into a bladder spleen stomach

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