Jonathan Kaplan has been a battlefield surgeon in Kurdistan and Burma, a flying doctor in Australia, a ship's doctor in Africa and a house doctor with the NHS.The Dressing Station is a book from the medical front line which shatters any preconceptions we may have about the nature of surgery. Kaplan describes what it's like to face pain and death on a regular basis and plunges the reader into the frenetic world of the operating theatre. The dark humour required to cope in stressful situations infuses the book, with the force and clarity of Kaplan's prose providing an unforgettable portrait of modern, global medecine.