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Title: The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine by Jonathan Kaplan ISBN: 0-8021-3962-0 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great story about modern wartime medicine!
Comment: If you're considering a medical career and would like to learn more about medicine while reading a highly entertaining and engaging story, this it. The author tells a great story with great style. Most of the book revolves around a very non-traditional surgical career that probably won't be applicable to readers (unless you plan on working in war torn countries for a living), but it still fascinated me medically and professionally.
The only negative statement I can make (and this is nit-picking) is there isn't more pictures and maps. This is a true story about fascinating people and places explained in great detail. It would have been great to see what the characters and patients really look like. And most of locations are so foriegn that maps of the villages and battle fields would have helped me follow the story better.
Rating: 5
Summary: Man's inhumanity
Comment: You do not meet many people like Dr Jonathan Kaplan, more's the pity.
In this beastly world, where there's so much death and destruction, we need people to pick up the pieces, and not many can or do. Not many are even capable of doing so.
Dr Kaplan is multi-talented - he has certainly picked up the pieces and sewn them together and saved lives in war zones around the world. This is voluntary work, and the stories are horrific. I cannot understand how he could be criticized for it. It is lucky that he can also write so well, and give the rest of us an idea of what is really going on.
The account of the rough times is broken by a welcome break as he describes his time as a ship's doctor, and as a doctor, flying anywhere in the world to check out patients for insurance companies.
He gives interesting background to the various conflicts he finds himself in and the people he meets and also side trips he sometimes is able to make in the numerous countries he finds himself in. He was even able to take a quick trip around my island, Bali, when the cruise ship dropped anchor there. Maybe I met him.
I would recommend this book to anyone. It is well written and readable and has won several prizes already. It will give you an insight into another slice of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good
Comment: Political and socialist views aside, the book was a great read. The author has the worst case of wanderlust I have ever seen, and can't seem to sit still for five minutes. I especially enjoyed the cruise ship experiences.
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Title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande ISBN: 0312421702 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival by Sheri Fink ISBN: 1586481134 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives : Tales of Life and Death from the ER by Pamela Grim ISBN: 0446677574 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff, Nicholas Daniloff ISBN: 0802714048 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome, M.D. Groopman ISBN: 0140298622 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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