Good book about a physician's second deployment to Iraq as an ER doctor in a Combat Support Hospital for four months. The author conveys what every emergency medical practitioner feels: the sheer terror when you're put to the test with your first cases, the questioning of yourself and actions on ...
On the busy ones, we didn’t have time to pee, while on slow shifts the medics fought boredom by staging scorpion-versus-camel-spider fights, or by watching slasher movies that drew belly laughs for the fake blood splashing across the screen. A few of the females, and even a couple of males, had t...