War Hospital is a powerful, haunting narrative presented in fast-paced, present time, first person narrative that unfolds like a Greek tragedy. And it is an impressive, beautifully written first book by Sheri Fink. This is an important, gripping book about doctors in wartime. Even anesthetics and disinfectants are in short supply.

Worse, their patients are brought in suffering from gruesome traumatic war injuries- shredded arms and legs, and devastating head injuries for which the pediatricians and internists are ill prepared to cope: There are no surgeons. Alic, Dachy, and Dautbasic find themselves trapped in the besieged city of Srebnenica, where they must care for an unstemmed flood of Bosnian Muslims. A small corps of very inexperienced young physicians including Drs. It is the story of a group of heroes, but heroes not in the diluted newspaper sense of a fireman saving a child but heroes in the classic sense of people who survive seemingly impossible personal tests as they mature from naïve, idealistic youths to flawed but ultimately successful saviors. This taut story is as powerful and intoxicating as any mystery novel. And this face is a heroic face, an inspiration. First, the book is no preachy lecture: It is entertaining and a gripping story, very well told, that quote effectively puts a human face and universalizes the experience of genocide. War Hospital proved just the medicine for this sense of paralysis. I would never have admitted to compassion fatigue, but it was becoming harder to access my outrage and easier to fall into a melancholy desire to not know more. In the age of information overload these were all competing for our attention and the surfeit of shocking details were producing a sort of ennui. and because journalists were also tiring of the Balkans they began to desert it for the next hotspot du jour. Although genocide is equally evil throughout the world and suffering itself has no color, I resented the fact that Africans were getting less press and global outrage. Yet I couldn't ignore the fact that I was becoming inured to the news of genocide in the Balkans, especially because it was being rapidly supplanted by genocide in other areas such as Rwanda. I looked at such complaints as little more than excuses for choosing not to care. What was that? Well, as a social worker I was always quite skeptical of people who complained of `compassion fatigue' or bemoaned their inability to care deeply about the unspeakable assorted cruelties and human rights abuse that scar the globe. I see that it has, and so I feel it's important to acknowledge the achievement of this book because I want everyone to have the experience I had. However, I first looked at this site not to see whether others enjoyed reading the book but because I wanted to see whether War Hospital had affected anyone else as much as it had me. This nonfiction book about the siege of single town is an inspiring chronicle of true heroism by physicians and nurses in the face of war and its assorted horrors including internecine carnage, genocide and malign indifference. Wootten, Yu Shyr, David O.Whether you are interested in contemporary history, war, medicine, morality and hope, you should read War Hospital. Soliman, Sigríur Sveinsdóttir, Douglas J. Netterville, Karla O'Dell, Julina Ongkasuwan, Gregory N. Makani, Fabien Maldonado, Kyle Mannion, Laura Matrka, Andrew J. Kasperbauer, Sid Khosla, Cheryl Kinnard, Robbi A. Gaelyn Garrett, Elizabeth Guardiani, Alexander T. Ekbom, Sara Fernandes-Taylor, Daniel Fink, Ramon A. Daniero, Alessandro de Alarcon, Donald T. Castellanos, Sheau-Chiann Chen, Matthew S. Francis, Alexander GelbardĬomparative Treatment Outcomes for Patients With Idiopathic Subglottic StenosisĪlexander Gelbard, Catherine Anderson, Lynne D. Soliman, Sigríður Sveinsdóttir, Douglas J.

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