War is hell, but often it leads to advances in medical technique that translate to peacetime. In The Facemaker,Lindsey Fitzharris tells the inspiring story of Harold Gillies, a visionary surgeon who battled to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I whose horrific facial injuries had left them unable to eat and so mutilated that they were unrecognizable. He learned as he […]
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