Under Her Skin Audiobook Libro.fm

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The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM one of Australias most innovative and respected surgeons and world leading burns specialist whose groundbreaking research and technology development has changed the lives of burn patients
When three bombs tore out the heart of Bali and decimated so many Australian lives in 2002 burns surgeon Professor Fiona Wood led her team to save twentyeight survivors with up to ninetytwo per cent body burns
A pioneer in the field of burns and reconstructive surgery she made world headlines with the use of her groundbreaking invention of sprayon skin to help minimise her patients horrific scars Fiona was later made Australian of the Year was voted Australias Most Trusted Person for an unprecedented six years running in the annual Readers Digest poll and has been acclaimed as an Australian Living Treasure
This is now the story of her extraordinary life from the daughter of a fifthgeneration coalmining family in the north of England to becoming one of Australias most innovative respected and dedicated surgeons and researchers She talks candidly of the moving valour of her burns patients the heartbreak the triumph the tears and the controversies that have stalked her stellar career
As cofounder of the Fiona Wood Foundation she conducts vital research into all aspects of the survival of burns victims with findings and breakthroughs that have had an impact on treatment around the globe while she is also director of the Burns Service of Western Australia a consultant plastic surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Childrens Hospital and Winthrop professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia Remarkably she has achieved all of this while raising six children
In Under Her Skin Sue Williams a bestselling author and awardwinning journalist who has written a number of bestselling biographies most notably about Father Chris Riley Father Bob Maguire and Dr Catherine Hamlin presents a searingly honest noholdsbarred account of all aspects of Fiona Woods remarkable life