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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? Gabriel Weston worked as a surgeon in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival. Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human dignity with compassion and insight, illuminating scenes of life and death the rest of us rarely glimpse. Direct Red won the 2010 PEN/ Ackerley Prize and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2009.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Medical profession

• Full title: Direct Red
• Author: Gabriel Weston
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780099520696
• ISBN: 0099520699
• ID: 04019036
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 146 g
• Dimensions: 194 × 136 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. February 2010

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