Tony Moore (1)

‘A siren seemed to be screaming inside my head. There was damage everywhere. Broken bits of my body and the car were twisted together in a gruesome embrace. Nothing would let go. I could not move’
While driving to work in 1984, Dr Tony Moore was hit by a thirty-tonne semitrailer, crushing him and his car and changing his life forever. A well-known surgeon and rehabilitation specialist, he now tells his unique story 01 recovery, from a patient’s point of view with a doctor’s knowledge show more and experience.
Temporarily disabled and emotionally devastated, Tony Moore records how he learned ‘many things about illness which no amount of abstract sympathy could have achieved and no textbook ever mentioned’. From the depths of despair and profound isolation, he emerges as a more perceptive doctor and a more complete man.
Challenging, intelligent and moving, this is the first experiential account of recovery from major road accident injuries. Intensely personal, yet professionally informed, it is rich with spiritual, philosophical and medcal insights which will reward many readings. show less