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Author | : Eugene Eisman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013-09-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780615874340 |
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, "Bitter Medicine," recalls a disturbing time of great contention and bitterness. But it is a personal story. It is the story of leaving my family, my perspective of the Vietnamese culture, the politics, and combat seen as a young physician. I earned my "street cred" as an army doc during the Vietnam War. As with the other physicians called into service, I was the unlikely soldier. My book is poignant and often humorous. We needed the humor to survive. I would never have volunteered for such a traumatic experience, yet I can't say, "I wish I'd never gone to Vietnam." I believe this experience had a major positive effect on molding me into who I am today. In the words of a Special Forces soldier, he described this sentiments accurately; "I wouldn't go back to Vietnam for a million dollars. On the other hand, I wouldn't have given up the experience for a million dollars."
Author | : John A. Parrish |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1480437883 |
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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.”
Author | : John A. Parrish |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1973-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780140036558 |
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Author | : John Albert Parrish |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0312654960 |
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On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Parrish examines his Southern Baptist childhood and the profound influence of his father, a fire and brimstone preacher turned Navy chaplain, while offering a candid assessment of the "God and Country" ethos that leads young men to rush wide-eyed into war. He describes the unimaginable carnage and acts of cruelty he witnessed in Vietnam, experiences that shattered his world view leaving him to retreat from his family upon his return stateside. Living virtually homeless at times, he visited veteran shelters and relived the horrors of war in a series of harrowing flashbacks as he dealt with suicidal thoughts. The author writes honestly and probingly of his episodes of infidelity and battles with sex addiction. Readers follow his steady journey toward recovery and his professional contributions in the field of medicine and technology, as well as a joint program with the Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital to aid returning veterans. Perhaps most poignantly, Parrish speaks of his quest to discover the identity of one particular solider in Vietnam he could not save—and whose memory has haunted him ever since. Autopsy of War is a soul searching memoir that is both an intensely personal narrative and a universally relevant trip through the world of war and recovery.
Author | : Carl E. Bartecchi, M.D. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2020-02-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1678173649 |
Download A Doctor's Vietnam Journal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Merriam Press Military History. A history of military and civilian medicine in Vietnam from World War II when the Japanese occupied Indochina through the French occupation after World War II and the American involvement in Vietnam, up to the present day. It is also a journal of the author's service as a doctor in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and later when he organized humanitarian aid for the Vietnamese and in particular assisting one hospital and its staff with training, equipment and supplies. Foreword by Patrick Brady MG, USA, Ret, who served as a Dustoff helicopter pilot in Vietnam and recipient of the Medal of Honor. 63 photos, 2 illustrations, 5 maps.
Author | : Robert J. Wilensky |
Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780896725324 |
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"Most important, there is no evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to the South Vietnamese forces, and in fact the opposite may have been true: American programs may have emphasized the inability of the South Vietnamese government to provide basic health care to its own people. Furthermore, the programs may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops did. If that is the case, the programs actually did more harm than good in the attempt to win hearts and minds."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Bob Drury |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 143916102X |
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"Last Men Out" tells the riveting story of the last 11 United States soldiers to escape South Vietnam on April, 30, 1975, the day America ended its combat presence.
Author | : Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Medecine |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl E. Bartecchi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781716437892 |
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The autobiography of Bartecchi's service as a doctor in the U.S. Army at Soc Trang during the Vietnam War. Also covered is his postwar efforts to organize humanitarian aid for the Vietnamese and, in particular, assisting a hospital and its staff with training, equipment and supplies, which continues to this day. In addition, it provides a history of military and civilian medicine in Vietnam from World War II when the Japanese occupied Indochina through the French occupation after World War II and the American involvement in Vietnam, up to the present day. Foreword by Patrick Brady MG, USA, Ret, who served as a Dustoff helicopter pilot in Vietnam and recipient of the Medal of Honor, who also served at Soc Trang. 63 photos, 2 illustrations, 5 maps. A Merriam Press Vietnam Autobiography.
Author | : Henry Ward Trueblood |
Publisher | : Astor & Lenox |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015-11-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780986058257 |
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It's 1965. A young surgeon is drafted into the U.S. Navy and sent to Vietnam, where he finds himself closer than he ever imagined to the carnage of war. He performs operations while under fire and sees wounds that can barely be contemplated. Marines are dying on the operating table in front of him. The small-town moral certainties he grew up believing in may themselves succumb to the ravages he is witnessing. More than anything, he wants to make it home to marry the woman he loves.