Medical Classics : 12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam  

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Johnston, Andrew McDonald

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7629 (Nov. 2007), page 1099.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Published four years after Richard Hooker's M*A*S*H (BMJ 2007;334:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39072.633241.59) and six years before Samuel Shem's The House of God (BMJ 2007;334:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39084.673889.59), this book shares some of their themes of comradeship and redemption among doctors under almost intolerable pressure. While working as an internal medicine trainee John Parrish was given the choice of conscription into the infantry or volunteering as a doctor in the navy. His book gives a factual and blunt description of a year's service as a US navy physician in Vietnam, working with the US Marine Corps in field hospitals, under fire, and close to the front line. His sense of unreality at the perfunctory induction period is followed by immediate exposure to the brutal reality of war, as the hospital commanding officer takes him and his contemporaries on a tour of the hospital triage room immediately after severely wounded . . .

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