An exhilarating insight into the life of a doctor at Heathrow Airport where the truth is often stranger than fiction. For over a decade Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world''s busiest airports confronting dramatic bizarre and sometimes heart-breaking situations. During her 24-hour shifts at Heathrow Dr Green had to be ready for anything: from finding an abandoned suitcase leaking blood onto the carousel to discovering a man smuggling heroin in a corset. It''s a job that brought her into contact with all walks of life; her patients included drug mules and fugitives schizophrenics and stowaways refugees and tourists. And with the threats of a nerve agent poisoning or a Level Four viral epidemic always in the back of her mind Dr Green found herself on the frontline where the decisions are made about who - or what - was allowed to leave the airport''s borders. FLIGHT RISK reveals the thrilling drama that takes place behind-the-scenes of an airport and what is needed to make critical decisions in this hidden no-man''s land of geopolitics terror tragedy and medicine. . Language: English