David Nott

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital. The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria. But he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal. Driven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help others and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he is now widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. But as time has gone on, David Nott began to realize that flying into a catastrophe - whether war or natural disaster - was not enough. Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he has gained, training other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets. War Doctor is his extraordinary story.

Surgery on the Front Line

War Doctor

Mike Smith

Yanan Fan

Jean-Luc Dortet-Bernadet

Flexible Bayesian Regression Modeling is a step-by-step guide to the Bayesian revolution in regression modeling, for use in advanced econometric and statistical analysis where datasets are characterized by complexity, multiplicity, and large sample sizes, necessitating the need for considerable flexibility in modeling techniques. It reviews three forms of flexibility: methods which provide flexibility in their error distribution; methods which model non-central parts of the distribution (such as quantile regression); and finally models that allow the mean function to be flexible (such as spline models). Each chapter discusses the key aspects of fitting a regression model. R programs accompany the methods. This book is particularly relevant to non-specialist practitioners with intermediate mathematical training seeking to apply Bayesian approaches in economics, biology, finance, engineering and medicine. Introduces powerful new nonparametric Bayesian regression techniques to classically trained practitioners Focuses on approaches offering both superior power and methodological flexibility Supplemented with instructive and relevant R programs within the text Covers linear regression, nonlinear regression and quantile regression techniques Provides diverse disciplinary case studies for correlation and optimization problems drawn from Bayesian analysis ‘in the wild’

Flexible Bayesian Regression Modelling

Angels Four

TRUE ACCOUNT OF JOURNEY INTO A REMOTE PLATEAU IN SOUTH AMERICA. RELATES AN UNSUCCESSFUL AND NEARLY DISASTROUS EXPEDITION INTO THE WORLD'S LARGEST NATURAL SHAFT.

Into the Lost World

«Superbo, indimenticabile, dolorosamente rivelatorio.» The Sunday Times Salvare più vite possibili laddove la speranza sembrava perduta. Per più di venticinque anni questo è stato l'obiettivo del dottor David Nott. Gallese, chirurgo in un ospedale londinese, ha chiesto congedi non retribuiti dal suo lavoro per andare volontario in alcune delle zone di guerra più pericolose del mondo. Dalla Sarajevo assediata del 1993 agli ospedali clandestini della zona orientale di Aleppo in mano ai ribelli, ha praticato interventi salvavita e chirurgia di guerra nelle condizioni più difficili, spesso unico occidentale, con pochissime risorse. E proprio ad Aleppo, una città in cui solo il 5 per cento dei medici ha avuto il coraggio di fermarsi, David vive alcune delle esperienze più scioccanti della sua vita. La sua clinica è sempre piena, le sue mani continuamente impegnate, ma la sua mente non è mai libera dai dubbi. Il suo è un resoconto sconvolgente di quasi tre decenni di volontariato nei territori martoriati dai conflitti più aspri e devastanti: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libia, Gaza e Siria. Ma ha lavorato anche in zone colpite da disastri naturali, come i terremoti ad Haiti e in Nepal. Spinto dalla passione, dal desiderio di aiutare gli altri e dal brivido per il pericolo estremo, è oggi riconosciuto come il chirurgo d'urgenza più esperto al mondo. Con il passare del tempo David Nott, però, si è reso conto che recarsi sul luogo di una catastrofe non era abbastanza. I medici sul campo devono imparare come curare le ferite sconvolgenti che la guerra infligge alle sue vittime. A partire dal 2015, la fondazione che ha istituito insieme alla moglie, Elly, si è impegnata a diffondere le conoscenze che aveva acquisito, formando altri medici nell'arte di salvare vite messe in pericolo da proiettili e bombe.

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