John A. Parrish

12, 20 & 5 (eBook, ePUB)

A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formative year of his life-and finds himself molded into a true doctor by the raw tragedy of the battlefield. His endless work is punctuated only by the arrival of the next helicopter bearing more casualties, and the stark announcements: "12 litter-borne wounded, 20 ambulatory wounded, and 5 dead." 12, 20 & 5 is an intimate and unique look at the effects of war that Library Journal calls "an autobiographical M*A*S*H* ... phenomenal."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480437883
• Artikelnr.: 44627904

Autorenporträt

John A. Parrish, MD, is the cofounder andCEO oftheCenter for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) and theformer directorof the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program.He is a distinguished professor emeritus of dermatologyat Harvard Medical School and has served as chief of the department of dermatologyat Massachusetts General Hospital.Parrish is also a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine.He is the author of Autopsy of War: A Personal History and 12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam.