Crossings
Subtitle: a doctor-soldier's story
By: Jon Kerstetter
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781101904374
Subjects: Physicians; Cerebrovascular disease; Brain damage; United States; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Patients; American Personal narratives; Flight surgeons; Medical care; Iraq War, 2003-2011; United States. Army; Disabled veterans; Biography
Other titles: Doctor-soldier's story
Description: "In Iraq, as a combat physician and officer, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives - to heal and to kill. When he suffered an injury and then a stroke during his third tour, he wound up back home in Iowa, no longer able to be either a doctor or a soldier. In this gorgeous memoir that moves from his impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within."--
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Prologue; title: Near the edge of a boundary; title: The boundary layer; title: Beyond the boundary layer; title: 61-November; title: War zones; title: Call Up; title: SimMan; title: Camp New York; title: Date Palms; title: Triage; title: Ballistic maneuvers; title: The crossing; title: Winter error!; title: The sound of a zipper; title: Globemaster; title: Part 2. Awake; title: Discovery; title: Stroke school; title: Reading; title: Winter dream; title: St. Luke's; title: Elephant Man; title: Therapy; title: VA Style; title: The List; title: Level 5.3; title: Wride (Write); title: Beyond the crossings; title: Epilogue.