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Today we are seeing ... a doctor. But not an ordinary doctor. Robin Coupland is the adviser on armed violence for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva who has spent many years as a field surgeon treating victims of landmines.

Dr Coupland introduces some of the language you may hear in news reports about war and conflict, as he gives us a shocking account of his work as a surgeon in Afghanistan (interview by our Geneva correspondent Imogen Foulkes).

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Vocabulary from the programme

limbs
arms or legs of a person

mine injury
a wound caused by the explosion of a landmine

amputee
a person whose arm or leg had to be cut off

to dread
to feel extremely frightened or anxious about something that is going to happen

disabled people
people who lack one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have; here, victims of landmines

prostheses
artificial body parts, such as an arm, foot or tooth, which replace a missing part

human impact
a powerful effect that something has on a person

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