Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice Award Jonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon a flying doctor a ship''s medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma Kurdistan America Mozambique England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a process of treating the casualties for life is a war and being a doctor is serving in that war. ''His account is born of two talents: to save lives and to bear witness. The result is a unique mixture of biography and reportage both personal and clinical'' Time Magazine . Language: English