Decision Point

Taking Risks to Save Lives in Emergency Medicine

Kevin Fong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
The Bodley Head Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84792-368-4 (ISBN)

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Professor Kevin Fong was flying with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances. Then he was seconded to the NHS's Covid-19 Strategy Unit, tasked with leading the fight against pandemic. In this gripping blend of memoir and reportage, he confronts a disturbing truth: the quest for 'zero harm' can prevent the saving of lives.

Telling stories of astonishing skill and catastrophic error across medicine, aviation and space-flight, and reflecting on his own dramatic experiences as well as those of war medics, pilots and surgeons, Fong offers a visceral journey and a major new argument about the balance of safety and risk in the 21st century.

Kevin Fong (OBE) is a consultant at UCL Hospitals specialising in intensive-care medicine and Major Incident Planning, where he also holds an honorary chair of Public Engagement for Science and Medicine. In 2020 he was seconded to the NHS England Covid-19 Emrgency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Team. Previously he has flown with the Helicopter Emergency Service and worked at NASA. He holds degrees in astrophysics, medicine and engineering. He is the writer and presenter of the number one hit podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon and author of Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 240 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-84792-368-2 / 1847923682
ISBN-13	978-1-84792-368-4 / 9781847923684
Zustand	Neuware