Mountain Rescue Doctor
Subtitle: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: November 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312358877
Subjects: Biography: general; Emergency services; True stories of endurance & survival; First Aid (Internal Medicine); Medical; Sports & Recreation; Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services; General; Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation / Outdoor Skills; Emergency Medicine; First Aid; Mountaineering accidents; Mountaineering injuries; Rescue work; United States
Description: An emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats rescue operation presents a series of rescue and recovery stories, offering insight into emergency wilderness medicine and the physical demands placed on its practitioners.