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I did really enjoy this remarkable memoir wonderfully showing the Grim Reaper forever perching on the surgeon's shoulder. Even more interesting as Westaby worked on my patch, in Oxford.
That said, although the content is amazing, the writing is less so. I found some of the descriptions of the case studies rather patronising, especially "little old lady", back to her "little family" and almost surprise expressed when his surgical nursing team can often second-guess him.
However he saved many, many lives that other clinicians had written-off and also describes, so perfectly, the parlous state of risk averse hospital administration vis a vis cutting edge, untested techniques, which he raises only when other possibilities have been exhausted and he is determined to give his patient every chance of recovery and/or improvement from their condition.
That said, although the content is amazing, the writing is less so. I found some of the descriptions of the case studies rather patronising, especially "little old lady", back to her "little family" and almost surprise expressed when his surgical nursing team can often second-guess him.
However he saved many, many lives that other clinicians had written-off and also describes, so perfectly, the parlous state of risk averse hospital administration vis a vis cutting edge, untested techniques, which he raises only when other possibilities have been exhausted and he is determined to give his patient every chance of recovery and/or improvement from their condition.