Making the Cut in South Africa: A medico-political journey

Summary:
More than just an autobiography, Making the Cut in South Africa: A medico-political journey is the fascinating story of one surgeon's professional and personal experiences within the divisive world of South African medicine, politics and society.

The author, a renowned urologist and transplant surgeon, takes the reader on a journey of medical discovery, from his development of pioneering surgical procedures and success in revolutionizing urological practice in Mozambique, to his involvement in medical politics and with this, a host of ethical and moral struggles.

Written as an honest and revealing account of the author's own experiences, this book boldly confronts issues such as the evils of racism, the dark side of the healthcare industry and the disastrous mismanagement of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Tempered with humorous anecdotes, intriguing true stories and encounters with well-known medics and politicians, this engagingly written and absorbing book will delight and shock in equal measure.

• The story of Professor Johan Naudé, and his adventures and experiences in medicine

• Brilliantly written, this book will capture the imagination and draw you in

• Full of amusing and often poignant tales touching on controversial subjects such as racism, poverty and corruption in medical practice and African political history

• An enthralling read, and once you start delving into its pages you will find yourself unable to put it down

Table of Contents:
1. First blood
2. School boy and student
3. District surgeon in the Caprivi
4. Organ transplantation: Barnard and the heart, kidneys and I
5. Renal embolization
6. Young girls in hell
7. A new look at urethral strictures
8. Erectile dysfunction
9. Very special children
10. Snip, snip and Bob's your aunty
11. Aspects of racism
12. The South African Medical and Dental Council and the Biko case
13. Perverse incentives in South African medicine
14. An outsider's view of the NHS
15. They meant well
16. Very special people
17. Institutions of integrity
18. HIV/AIDS
19. The Mozambique project
Index

About the Author(s):

Before retirement, Professor Johan Naudé was a renowned and well respected urologist and transplant surgeon as well as a Past President of the South African Urological Association. Having shared an organ transplant unit with legendary transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard, Professor Naudé was awarded the moniker of 'The Poor Man's Christiaan Barnard', an amusing appellation that often led to confusion among his patients!

Readership:
For all those with an interest in medical biography