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Life and death decisions When Isis fighters burst into his operating theatre brandishing Kalashnikov rifles, surgeon and Manchester alumnus David Nott OBE was shaken to the core, especially as – unbeknown to him – he was trying to save the life of one of their own. It was Aleppo in Syria in 2013. Despite working under constant threat of abduction and execution, he was the last western surgeon left in the city.
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