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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) by Mark de Rond; Chris Hedges is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
What is Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) about?
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 exp
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
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- Author
- Mark de Rond; Chris Hedges
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501707933
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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