![]() ![]() Dr Brown, fresh into Angola, called Novo Doctor - new doctor - by his colleagues, jarring up against the staff over proper practice, supervises a surgery: the removal of an appendix. However, after a bit of thought, I have to admit that my favourite part is close to the beginning. In a book bursting at the seams with tension and drama it is hard to pick out one in particular. Dr Brown is a spectacular writer, describing the environments he finds himself in with a turn of phrase so potent that you practically taste his experiences: the dust, the blood, the panic. ![]() ![]() This book is sometimes bleak, sometimes funny heartwarming, heartbreaking beautifully written tear-your-heart-out sad and punch-the-sky triumphant by turns. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg is the starkly unsentimental tale of Dr Damien Brown, who ventured out into Africa with MSF - Doctors Without Borders, if you’re not familiar with the acronym - first in Angola, then Mozambique and the Sudan. ![]()
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