Going back : how a former refugee, now an internationally acclaimed surgeon, returned to Iraq to change the lives of injured soldiers and civilians

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Label

Going back : how a former refugee, now an internationally acclaimed surgeon, returned to Iraq to change the lives of injured soldiers and civilians

Title remainder

how a former refugee, now an internationally acclaimed surgeon, returned to Iraq to change the lives of injured soldiers and civilians

Statement of responsibility

Munjed Al Muderis with Patrick Weaver

Creator

• Al Muderis, Munjed
• trueAl Muderis, Munjed, 1972-

Contributor

• Weaver, Patrick

Author

• Weaver, Patrick
• Al Muderis, Munjed

Subject

• Amputees -- Rehabilitation -- Iraq
• trueAustralia
• Disabled veterans -- Medical care -- Iraq
• trueHomecomings
• trueIraq
• trueIraq -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans | Medical care
• Orthopedic surgery -- Iraq
• Orthopedists -- Australia
• Orthopedists -- Australia -- Biography
• Afghan War, 2001- -- Veterans | Medical care
• truePhysicians
• trueRefugees
• Refugees -- Australia -- Biography
• trueSurgeons
• trueSurgeons -- Australia -- Biography
• Victims of terrorism -- Iraq
• trueWar casualties
• Orthopedists -- Iraq -- Biography
• Al Muderis, Munjed
• Al Muderis, Munjed -- Travel -- Iraq
• Amputees -- Iraq

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Munjed's new book is once more a journey, but this time in taking him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself. In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon at the cutting edge of world medicine. In Going Back, Munjed shares the extraordinary journey that his life-changing new surgical technique has taken him on. Through osseointegration, he implants titanium rods into the human skeleton and attaches robotic limbs, allowing patients genuine, effective and permanent mobility. Munjed has performed this operation on hundreds of Australian civilians, wounded British soldiers who've lost legs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a survivor of the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. But nothing has been as extraordinary as his return to Iraq after eighteen years, at the invitation of the Iraqi government, to operate on soldiers, police and civilian amputees wounded in the horrific war against ISIS. These stories are both heartbreaking and full of hope, and are told from the unique perspective of a refugee returning to the place of his birth as a celebrated international surgeon

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

VHEI

Dewey number

617.47092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction