The Bara Knife & Gun Club: Misadventures in the world's most notorious trauma hospital

A journey through the front lines of trauma, error and grief at the world’s most infamous hospital

Every young doctor hears the stories about Bara: the infamous hospital in Johannesburg where you patch up gunshot wounds and practise ‘real medicine’. When Nicholas George Chapman first arrived as a wide-eyed medical student, he immediately found himself in too deep – elbow-deep, in fact, in someone’s chest cavity, a place as exhilarating as it was terrifying.

Years later, he returned to join an...