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12, 20, & 5

A Doctor’s Year in Vietnam

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12, 20, & 5

By: John A. Parrish
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
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The candid memoir of a young doctor who reluctantly accepts a military commission and spends a year behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the navet of a new medical intern.

With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man’s agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formative year of his life - and finds himself molded into a true doctor by the raw tragedy of the battlefield. His endless work is punctuated only by the arrival of the next helicopter bearing more casualties, and the stark announcements: “12 litter-borne wounded, 20 ambulatory wounded, and 5 dead.”

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Not easy listening. A story well told, originally was journal of a plague year by the same author.

Staggeringly honest

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This is a wonderful book. Frank, brutal and honest, it deals with the first 11 months of this doctor’s life in Vietnam.
O would love to read about the next stage of this young man’s journey.

Frank, brutal and honest

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