Shehan Hettiaratchy: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- trauma surgeon, lead surgeon at St Mary's hospital, consultant surgeon, national clinical director of armed forces healthcare
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The most important thing is that they should stay horrified by what they see – they need to stay shocked. If you're able to detach from your feelings completely, you've lost your humanity.”
Where Shehan Hettiaratchy has been quoted
- ‘The light will always outshine the dark’: trauma surgeon Shehan Hettiaratchy on his harrowing, heartening callingtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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