He's known as Canberra's miracle surgeon.
Ross Farhadieh is a plastic surgeon who is about more than facelifts and nose jobs.
In 2016, he repaired the almost-severed hand of a University of Canberra student after a car crash on the Kings Highway.
Last year, he reattached the severed arm of a Wagga Wagga farmer who got it stuck in a round baler.
"After that surgery, I sat the team down and said, 'I'm sure I'm never going to see another surgery like that'," he said.
"And then, three months go we had a nine-year-old child from a car accident who had an almost a complete amputation of her right arm. Literally on the day I was here. So we put that all back together and I gather she's doing well.
"Canberra is really funny that way. Because we are the sole [major] hospital between the Victorian border and Sydney we kind of get this stuff and you feel like you are doing some good here."
In between it all, Dr Farhadieh has broken new ground.
He is the chief editor of a plastic surgery textbook that has just released its second edition. Called Plastic Surgery: Principles and Practice, the textbook will be a reference for junior consultant surgeons and training surgeons in countries such as Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and India.
"It is a big deal from an Australian surgery perspective. We don't have too many big, major textbooks that originate from Australia," Mr Farhadieh said.
Professor Julian Pribaz, professor of plastic surgery at the University of South Florida, wrote the forward to the textbook, calling it excellent, succinct and practical, the contributors "expertly summarising the current state-of- the-art of our specialty".
Professor Pribaz wrote that textbook continued to "nicely fulfil the tradition of passing down knowledge from one generation of problem solvers to the next".
It's an achievement that didn't come easy.
Mr Farhadieh has his own private practice but also works in the public system in Canberra, where he also performs anything from free breast reconstructions after cancer to emergency, life-transforming surgery.
The dad-of-two said things had to give way to allow for the book.
"I definitely have had to sacrifice some things and lean on people like my wife. My kids maybe didn't get as much from me as they could have while I was writing the book," he said.
"The most that has been reduced is private practice because that's a luxury I can do without. So I've not really pursued that wholeheartedly, because I really wanted to do this."
But he continued to do his public system surgery, which was often reconstructive.
"It really worked out well because I think your clinical mind only works well when you're working and operating," he said.
The book brings together experts in the field from around the world.
Canberra also features in the text, as part of the wider Australian representation.
"Some of them are monumental contributors to Australian plastic surgery, like Wayne Morrison, like Bryan Mendelson," he said.
"A lot of them are younger surgeons who I know are going to be the future of our society and I wanted them to have a platform on the world stage to say, 'This is what we do well in the Australian context'.
"We're a small country, in terms of numbers, but we have always punched above our weight.
"There's a whole bunch of clinical photographs in the textbook which are from the work we've done over the course of the seven years I've been in Canberra.
"There's stuff we've done for cancer reconstruction, lower limb reconstruction, for chest wall reconstruction."
The textbook would provide further proof that, in Canberra, surgeons could be extended, challenged and satisfied by their work, that the national capital was not some "backwater" for the profession.
Mr Farhadieh lives in Sydney with his family. He has a private practice in Sydney and Canberra and usually travels between the two but has had to stay in Canberra lately because of the Covid lockdowns.
He says juggling everything is not easy but he would never give up his work at the Canberra Hospital.
"They would have to force me out of the building. It is just such a lovely place to come to work at and the institution is such a nice institution. The people who work there are amazing people," he said.
