A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News Winner of a Pride of Manchester Lifetime Achievement Award This is a story of tireless hard work and astonishing bravery. Tony Redmond has deployed to wars, refugee crises, air crashes, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, and disease outbreaks for over thirty years. Featuring tales of hope and redemption, as well as untold suffering and mismanagement, this raw, honest account could only have been written by someone who has for decades performed incredible feats of altruism. Frontline takes the reader from the wards of Manchester's Nightingale hospital to Kosovo, from Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak to Lockerbie, and from Haiti to the Philippines. We find its author risking life and limb to help those affected by events beyond their control. But while humanitarian work and medicine require an innate goodness, not all those involved have benign motives.

And saving lives requires difficult choices: between the desire to relieve suffering and the need to weigh up the context. Too often medical aid is found wanting, doing more harm than good. How are life-or-death choices made in the heat of the moment? What are the consequences of your action, or inaction? Is it better at times to do nothing? How do you live with yourself if you want to help but can't? This is a frank account of the personal toll -- physical, mental and social -- emergency medicine levies on those who choose to do it. But ultimately, Frontline offers a tale of optimism, persistence and triumph over adversity, speaking to the resilience and fortitude of those who help and those whose lives they save. Gold title * A natural on camera, Professor Tony Redmond OBE is an A&E consultant who founded UK-Med, an organisation which responds to healthcare emergencies around the globe * A former president of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Professor Redmond has extensive experience in global disaster response and so-called complex emergencies. * He's been on the front line of countless international emergencies the Lockerbie bombing, the Ebola crisis, in Sarajevo, the Yerevan earthquake in Armenia and latterly as medical director of Manchester's Nightingale hospital * He is an experienced public speaker and happy to speak candidly of his experiences and how they have affected him, including his thoughts on government responses to unfolding crises. Competition: Admissions;Do No Harm;War Doctor;In the Wars;Being Mortal;Dear Life;When Breath Becomes Air;Fragile Lives;Your Life in My Hands;When the Dust Settles;Preventable. By; Henry Marsh; David Nott;Waheed Arian; Rachel Clarke;Stephen Westaby;Rachel Clarke;Atul Gawande;Paul Kalanthi;Lucy Easthope;Devi Sridhar.