Title: Crossings
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."--
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, United states, army, biography, Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives, Physicians, biography, Cerebrovascular disease, patients, biography, Brain damage, patients, Veterans
Places: United States
People: Jon Kerstetter