Craig Jurisevic has received a few death threats lately. Yet death is something to which he is not unaccustomed.

The Australian trauma surgeon has travelled to Israel, East Timor, Afghanistan and elsewhere, utilising his skills in what he viscerally describes as "wet mechanics", the delicate, bloody job of putting back together people who have been shot, bombed, burned, stabbed or otherwise mutilated.

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