Contact Wounds
by Jonathan Kaplan
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A memoir of a doctor's education in the classroom and on the battlefield. Surgery is the art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. No other field of medicine carries so much individual responsibility as that of a surgeon. Growing up in South Africa, Kaplan made his own pilgrimage to a kibbutz in Israel at fifteen, coming of age in a land facing stark moral choices in the wake of the Six-Day War. He eventually landed in Angola, taking show more charge of a combat-zone hospital, the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians, where he was exposed daily to the horrors of war. He portrays serving as a volunteer surgeon in Baghdad--where he treated civilian casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals and dealt with gangs of looters stripping pharmacies and militant groups harassing doctors out of operating rooms.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Interesting first-person account; not very polished writing.
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Jonathan Kaplan was born in South Africa. He studied medicine in Cape Town before specializing in the United Kingdom and America. After ten years of clinical experience and research work he left the secure career of hospital surgery to travel as a doctor, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
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