· Now a part-time ENT surgeon in London, Weston recalls her first faltering steps in medicine with brutal honesty in a compelling memoir that is as beautifully written as it is gruesomely described. She strips away any preconceptions of all surgeons as selfless heroes whose only motivations are to save lives. · Direct Red by Gabriel Weston. This compelling semi-fictionalised surgeon's story balances the doctor's need to be both dispassionate and Author: Elizabeth Day. · Gabriel decided to re-train as a doctor and received her medical qualification in She is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and trained as an ENT specialist. Moreover, she is the author of the memoir Direct Red: A Surgeon’s Story which won the PEN/Ackerley prize for Autobiography in May Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston An elegant, revelatory account of the tensions that beset a surgeon enthralls Elizabeth Day. This short, stark book is a frontline bulletin from the operating theatre of a British hospital, giving us a surgeon's-eye view of her work in painfully vivid detail. Gabriel Weston's unadorned style. Gabriel Weston worked as a surgeon in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival.
“Direct Red: A Surgeon’s View of Her Life-or-Death Profession” unfolds and reveals an auspicious form of love in the grotesque. We then think of Linnaeus’ phrase “to live by medicine is to live horribly” however Weston transforms the horrible into a divine soup of “gratia plena” we stand in line for on a dreary, gray cold British day. Buy. Editions for Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story: (), (Kindle Edition published in ), (Hardcover published in ), (Pape. A beautiful, haunting and upsetting book. Weston's prose is cool and elegant ― Sunday Telegraph Direct Red is Gabriel Weston's memoir of the years she spent pursuing a surgical career She examines these with an honesty that is both brave and uncomfortable ― Guardian.
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