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DR. Dave Hnida is a family physician and medical commentator who has worked as a local and national correspondent for NBC and CBS. He lives with his family in Littleton, Colorado.

Comprend les noms: Dave Hnida, David Hnida

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Hnida, Dave
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Littleton, Colorado, USA
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medicine bookbox; family doc in his 40s deploys twice to Iraq, this book is about his time during the second deployment at a combat support hospital. When he got there, the medics and all called it f*&%king Paradise, so Paradise General it was. He had a smidge of time to partner with the outgoing doc, before becoming the ER Trauma jack-of-all-trades. Along with other docs that rotated in with him, including a surgeon and ortho doc, they just patched everyone up with "spaghetti and meatball" surgery and then they were sent along to Germany (the Americans) or Iraq hospitals (the Iraqi police and soldiers). And sometimes he's running Sunday clinic, full of sore throats, hemmorhoids, and migraine headaches. Dehydration was an issue too, as the temp was 90 degrees at night and 130 degrees during the day. The choppers ("birds") would land just outside the ER tent, rocking the camp which he got used to after a while. The medics would sprint the wounded in, Dave and others secure the airway, IVs into each arm, dump in blood for most and scoot them out the back door into the OR tent for patching up for flight. Sterile it was not - and no way to make it so. So antibiotics heavily pumped in too. Quite an interesting read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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nancynova | 4 autres critiques | Dec 20, 2020 |
My emotional reaction to this book echoed my emotional reaction to The Good Soldiers: We should read and reread these books to face the cost of our war in Iraq. It's one thing to read the memoirs of soldiers, and it's a good thing. But it's something else to read about a combat hospital, where day after day, broken body after broken body literally embody the cost of war. These books leave me utterly disgusted with civilian and military leaders who excelled at logistics and failed at humanity.

I am in awe of the soldiers and doctors and medical staff who rise above their leaders to look after one another.

Other than the emotional impact, this book is an easy read, simply illustrating the author's insights and memories of his second tour in Iraq. It was a pleasure to be introduced to Dr. Hnida and get to know him a little bit. I was especially intrigued by his complex motivations for serving: he wanted to understand his father better, and to atone -- or at least act in opposition to -- evils whose aftermath he had witnessed close to home, including Columbine.
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read.to.live | 4 autres critiques | Nov 7, 2012 |
The author's view on the day to day life on a FOB is certainly entertaining and all his descriptions of the work at the hospital are, at the very least, endearing. One can only hope that he will decide to publish a book about his experiences on his first deployment.
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emed0s | 4 autres critiques | Jan 16, 2011 |

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3
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