Scalpel and The Kukri Reviews

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Medical Sciences History
This is a heart-warming book to read and it reflects the high regard that both Gurkha and British have for each other.
Customer review on amazon.co.uk
The uncomplaining stoicism, courage and patience of injured or very sick Nepalese, and the treatments prescribed by the author, serves to remind those of us Western hypochondriacs with intolerant and presumptuous aspirations for our own health that the human body actually contains almost infinite capacity for repair, given time, skilled medical treatment and an appropriate attitude of mind. This is a valuable lesson, and the book is a timely addition to the current debate on healthcare in our cosseted, couch-potato society. It is to be applauded.
highbeam.com
With compassion and cultural sensitivity Major Pitt relates his experiences as a surgeon serving in the British Military Hospital in Nepal from 1966-68
The Writer
So it is with Peter's magical book: an amalgam of personal diary, travel guide, important military and social history, textbook of tropical medicine, essential guide to signs and symptoms in clinical diagnosis, and an essay on the most virtuous and compassionate way through the minefield of offering medical care to an ethnically and culturally alien group of people, bound to the British Army by the fickle strands of history and tradition. It is a well-written and beautifully illustrated book.

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