The doctor of Hiroshima : his heart-breaking and inspiring true life story / Dr Michihiko Hachiya.

Hachiya, Michihiko, 1903-1980, author

London : Monoray, 2024.

approximately 285 pages ; 20 cm

This translation previously published as Hiroshima diary. 1955.
Translated from the Japanese.

The Doctor of Hiroshima is the extraordinary true story of Dr Michihiko Hachiya, whose hospital was less than a mile from the centre of the atomic bomb that hit on that warm August day. In immense shock and pain, he and his wife Yaeko dragged themselves to the devastated hospital building and what colleagues they could find. In time, they begin to heal, and start to treat the impossible numbers of patients - a small girl covered in burns, an elderly man with pneumonia, a young boy and his little sister looking for their parents. They also began to investigate the strange unexplainable symptoms afflicting his patients. Told simply and poignantly in Dr Hachiya's own words, The Doctor of Hiroshima is a unique and deeply moving human story of survival about a small, committed band of hospital staff in the face of unthinkable destruction and loss.

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