[Reader-list] The Dressing Station

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Yesterday night after work ennui i was indulging in some purposeless channel 
surf-ering. A sentence from a calm looking man in an dramatically lit studio 
caught my attentions - "hospital heirarchy in ordered society just did not go 
with me...". Over the interview one realised that he was a surgeon who has 
seen and felt physical suffering, death and dying in ways that few people 
would have ever dared to experience. 

One story that shaped his life: A friend of his, also a doctor, once told him 
that he was told to resusticate a victim of torture so that more information 
could be extracted from him. His friend was an army doctor who thought 
healing and caring for the wounded amidst sustained violence may remind 
others of our humanity. But this experience changed this perception for ever. 

I am enclosing some reviews of the book `The Dressing Station` written by 
this doctor - Jonathan Kaplan. If anyone has read the book please do write in 
your comments to the list.

jeebesh

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The Dressing Station 
A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Jonathan Kaplan
( http://www.pgw.com/catalog/Winter2002/groveatlantic/0802117074.html)