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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based,
for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan.
Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in
hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in
which good people face impossible choices and in which routines
designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of
highlighting war's absurdity. With stories that are at once comical
and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a
doctor at war. He lifts the cover on a world rarely ever seen, let
alone written about, and provides a poignant counterpoint to the
archetypical, adrenaline-packed, macho tale of what it is like to
go to war.Here the crude and visceral coexist with the tender and
affectionate. The author tells of well-meaning soldiers at hospital
reception, there to deliver a pair of legs in the belief that these
can be reattached to their comrade, now in mid-surgery; of
midsummer Christmas parties and pancake breakfasts and late-night
sauna sessions; of interpersonal rivalries and banter; of caring
too little or too much; of tenderness and compassion fatigue; of
hell and redemption; of heroism and of playing God. While many good
firsthand accounts of war by frontline soldiers exist, this is one
of the first books ever to bring to life the experience of the
surgical teams tasked with mending what war destroys.
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