Richard Villar - Life on a Knife Edge

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Brian Rose

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🗓️ 25 April 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Ex-SAS surgeon and author of "Winged Scalpel" Richard Villar describes the difficulties, dangers and occasional impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas and warzones, what it's like to land in Haiti in 2010 only 30 hours after the earthquake, how his age becomes an asset when dealing with tribal elders, and why he's in no rush to retire.

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0:00.0	This is Richard Villa, you're listening to London Real.
0:03.0	London Real, one of the coolest up-and-coming podcasts.
0:17.0	Look out, it's another sunny day in London.
0:22.0	It's Brian Rose from London Real. You know people always ask me,
0:25.3	why did you move from San Diego to the UK with all the sunshine from California?
0:31.6	And the answer is this, you know, in England you have to earn the sunshine.
0:35.8	And Calle you get it every day. So when it comes out, it really feels like something special.
0:40.8	I'm here in Shortage. Yes, another church behind me for a
0:44.7	guy who's not religious. I seem to hang around a lot in churches. This week we have
0:49.6	Mr Richard Villar who is an ex-S.
0:53.0	soldier and also a surgeon.
0:55.0	You know, it's a very strange thing here in Britain where they don't call the surgeon's doctors,
0:59.6	they call a mister.
1:01.0	It goes back to some old school piece where if you cut people open you weren't considered a doctor.
1:05.6	Don't quote me on that.
1:07.6	Richard Viro came on the show last week and he pretty much blew me away.
1:11.0	I knew he was the real deal. He's got a book called Waved
1:14.2	Scalple where he talks about his work with the group Merlin which is basically
1:19.9	an aid organization that drops him in earthquake and other conflimate. an in 2010 that's what caught my eye he also went into Libya in 2011 and he gets
1:35.0	dropped in like 24 hours after the earthquake in Haiti and he has to basically
1:40.0	triage not only the people but the situation. He has to find water, he has to turn a tennis
1:46.2	court into a hospital, he has to find out who the local strong man is and do a deal with
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