Knife Edge: Life as a Special Forces Surgeon (46 page)

Central India - operating on a polio victim. I assist Vincent (right) in major tendon surgery.
Photograph by Nicola Townley.

Louise, the paediatrician, at work in the Far East. No wonder I love her.

Examining a Palestinian knee in Southern Lebanon. Only minutes before there had been a gunfight outside the consulting room.

Trying to undo the after-effects of war in Lebanon. Reconstructing an elbow damaged by shrapnel.

One high-velocity bullet can cause immense damage. This leg will never bend fully again.

Sarajevo’s Swiss Cheese Hospital. In genocidal war, even hospitals become so-called legitimate targets.
Photograph by Roop Tandon.

Teheran - I (right) operate under the close scrutiny of local surgeons.

© 1997, 2012 Richard Villar

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