Essentially, a tongue twister works like a physical exercise: the more you practice, the better your pronunciation will be.Īccording to the Cambridge Dictionary, a tongue twister is “a sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often”. For this reason, they are used by actors, politicians and even news anchors before going live.
Although they don’t make a lot of sense, tongue twisters are very helpful in speech therapy due to their repeated sounds. War Doctor is his extraordinary story.Tongue twisters of all sorts and sizes have been helping people to perfect their pronunciation in English for decades.
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. But as time went on, David Nott began to realize that flying into a catastrophe - whether war or natural disaster - was not enough.ĭoctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. 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.
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.īut he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal. 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. Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt 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.
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