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Flight Risk: The Highs and Lows of Life As a Doctor at Heathrow Airport | Stephanie Green
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An exhilarating insight into the life of a doctor at Heathrow Airport, where the truth is often stranger than fiction. For over a decade, Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world's busiest airports, confronting dramatic, bizarre and sometimes heart-breaking situations. During her 24-hour shifts at Heathrow, Dr Green had to be ready for anything: from finding an abandoned suitcase leaking blood onto the carousel, to discovering a man smuggling heroin in a corset. It's a job that brought her into contact with all walks of life; her patients included drug mules and fugitives, schizophrenics and stowaways, refugees and tourists. And with the threats of a nerve agent poisoning or a Level Four viral epidemic always in the back of her mind, Dr Green found herself on the frontline where the decisions are made about who - or what - was allowed to leave the airport's borders. FLIGHT RISK reveals the thrilling drama that takes place behind-the-scenes of an airport and what is needed to make critical decisions in this hidden no-man's land of geopolitics, terror, tragedy and medicine.
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#flyhighjuly

You wouldn‘t be #flyinghigh if you were deemed a flight risk by this doctor.

I read this recently and, whilst it was interesting, it wasn‘t as fascinating as I‘d hoped.....

Eggs Seems like an interesting concept but would require some fearlessness...🤔 5y
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Whilst I enjoyed this memoir about the author‘s time as a doctor at Heathrow Airport, I think it suffered a little bit from the time that it covered. Although it was written more recently, it was based in the early 2000s and these days we‘ve seen all this before on fly-on-the-wall airport and border documentaries.

Therefore I didn‘t learn much new but there was enough detail to keep me interested and I liked the author‘s writing style.

rabbitprincess Good to know about the time period being covered! 5y
Megabooks Sounds good! 5y
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We did find an open bookshop on our day out in Saltburn, so I had to buy a book to support them.

I can‘t find the shop on here to link; Book Corner was a tiny little store, but lovely, with a very eclectic selection of books. I was going to purchase ‘Sorry I‘m late, I didn‘t want to come‘ but I‘ve seen that in a few places and I‘d not seen this one before.

I also love reading the ‘Booktime‘ magazine....

FlowerFairy This book looks great! 5y
MicheleinPhilly That sounds fascinating! 5y
Cinfhen Wow!!! Never knew there was such a job!! Great find!!!! 5y
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rabbitprincess Oooh that sounds really interesting! 5y
MayJasper I haven't been to Saltburn since I was a child. I remember being parked by flower beds next to the seafront, my uncle boiling a kettle on a tiny stove in the back of a van and the roads being surfaced in red tarmac. 5y
squirrelbrain @MayJasper - we boiled a kettle in the back of the campervan and there are some lovely spring flowerbeds but, sorry to disappoint you, the tarmac is now just boring bog standard black! 🤣 5y
MayJasper 😊 I hope you enjoyed your trip. Shame about the tarmac ☹️ 5y
Hooked_on_books I love finding random books in tiny little bookshops. It‘s the best! 5y
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