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So I just finished reading "On Call in Hell" ( http://www.amazon.com/Call-Hell-Doctors-Iraq-Story/dp/0451220536 ) after someone here, although I forget who, recommended it a long time ago. I thought it was the cats pajamas and traditionally I have loved memoir type books - not necessarily auto biographies.

I loved Samuel Pepys' diaries, "Into thin air" about the tragic attempt on Mt Everest,and the lesser known "Crossfire" (http://www.5rar.asn.au/misc/crosfire.htm ) about our diggers in Vietnam, and a few other books. So I'm wondering if you lot would like to recommend any books.

I've read the old EMS books threads, and I welcome EMS specific books. However, anything in that memoir/autobio category will do, especially those with a scientific, medical or military theme.
 
Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon
When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was destroyed by Russian shelling, he returned to his nearby hometown of Alkhan Kala and restored an abandoned clinic with help from villagers. Soon he was the only doctor for tens of thousands of residents and refugees in the surrounding area. During six years of war and intermittent ceasefire, he often worked without gas, electricity, or running water, with only local anesthetics and homemade medical supplies.

Although he treated mainly civilians, Baiev upheld the Hippocratic Oath by also caring for Russian soldiers and Chechen fighters alike--a practice that branded him a traitor by both sides. Kidnapped and nearly killed on several occasions, Baiev finally fled Chechnya in 2000 and won political asylum in the United States.
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http://www.amazon.com/Grief-My-Heart-Memoirs-Chechen/dp/0802777090
 
"Sabers Edge: A Combat Medic in Rhamadi Iraq" was a good one that I just completed.
 
Too close to home, this one...

War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
A young physician-reporter chronicles the experiences of the doctors and nurses in a besieged city, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral quandaries of practicing medicine in a war zone. . In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?
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http://www.amazon.com/War-Hospital-Story-Surgery-Survival/dp/1586481134
 
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bump. sorry

delete, please
 
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Cheers chaps.
 
"On Call In Hell", R. JAddick, Cdr., USN

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451220536/wnycorg-20

Look up (old) copies of "The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid At Sea" (U.S. Public Health Service).
I have a 1943 copy of "Burns, Shock, Wound Healing and Vascular Injuries",Military Surgical Manuals/Nationsl Reseach Council(W.B. Saunders Co.) (Will trade for copy of 1970's era USAF TO 00105e-9, or first eition of the "Orange Book" EMT text.
 
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Have a look for "back down the ridge" it was written by a MASH surgeon in Korea.
 
Read "M*A*S*H" by Hooker. Skip the sequels.

The author was a Korean War surgeon, the story is good and has embedded many truths he learned.
 
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