From Mayo Clinic to Vietnam
From Mayo Clinic to Vietnam

Author: James V. Donadio, Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780692885468

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Dr. James V. Donadio Jr. was fresh out of his medical residency training in 1966 when he was drafted into the United States Army Medical Corps and sent to Vietnam to supervise a renal (kidney) unit at the 3rd Field Hospital near Saigon. In From the Military Draft to Vietnam: Memoirs of a Physician Serving in the War, Dr. Donadio looks back at his year of treating American soldiers wounded on the battlefield. During his service there, he also cared for Vietnamese civilians in outpatient clinics and Vietnamese children in nearby orphanages. Dr. Donadio found the unique medical practice in the war zone to be both challenging and rewarding, but leaving behind his wife and four children for a year was painful and required extra mental effort on his part to push ahead and attend to his medical responsibilities. His faith also helped him during his time there, and he was honored to serve as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman's attending physician during the Cardinal's Christmas 1966 tour of the combat zone. Dr. Donadio's memoirs included both his recollections of these experiences backed by a vast assembly of documentary sources.

The Bach Mai Hospital Project
The Bach Mai Hospital Project

Author: Carl E. Bartecchi, M.D.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1678173711

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Merriam Press History. Bach Mai Hospital was founded in 1911 and has become the largest, comprehensive general and teaching hospital in Vietnam. Each year, the hospital receives hundreds of foreign delegations who go there for training, sharing medical knowledge, or to cooperate in development of research. Bartecchi served in the US Army as a Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War and in addition to caring for wounded troops, organized medical forays by helicopter to towns throughout the Mekong Delta. During his tour in Vietnam he developed an admiration and respect for the resilient and proud Vietnamese people. In the mid-90s, he became involved with assisting the hospital improve their facility and providing training for doctors, nurses and staff there, including exchanges of medical personnel between Bach Mai and American hospitals, as assistance in the area of medical equipment and supplies, donated by organizations and corporations. This book provides the background to this story. 77 photos.

The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living
The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living

Author: Amit Sood MD

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Published: 2013-12-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0738217123

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A specialist at the Mayo Clinic offers a practical, two-step stress management program that is the result of two decades of research and work and that has already helped over 15,000 people annually. 40,000 first printing.

Mayo Clinic Antimicrobial Therapy
Mayo Clinic Antimicrobial Therapy

Author: John W. Wilson

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-10-26

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0199797781

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Mayo Clinic Toolkit is an invaluable revision resource for resident, fellow, and practicing clinicians preparing for their Board Exams

MASH Doctor in Vietnam
MASH Doctor in Vietnam

Author: Reuel S. Long, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-11-18

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1476648050

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Reuel Long's experiences as an MD in the emergency rooms of Flint, Michigan, prepared him for only some of what he would see in a mobile army surgical hospital. Antiwar sentiment among the doctors in basic training at Fort Sam Houston set the tone for his tour as a general medical officer. In March 1971, the 27th MASH played a critical role treating survivors of the deadliest attack on any firebase during the Vietnam War. Long's vivid memoir recalls the casualties he cared for during the war, including one he crossed paths with 44 years later--who in his own words describes his rehabilitation from the loss of his legs and his protesting the war from a wheelchair. An addendum gives an insider's account of the U.S. military's failure to remedy a fatal design flaw in the M16 rifle, which caused an unknown number of American casualties.

Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual
Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual

Author: Samuel J. Asirvatham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 019994119X

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Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual explores the various contemporary techniques for diagnosis, imaging, and physiology-based therapeutic ablation.

Blood on China Beach
Blood on China Beach

Author: Paul J. Pitlyk

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-11-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1475959443

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More than once during his yearlong duty, thirty-two-year-old Paul J. Pitlyk wondered what had possessed him to leave the security of a neurosurgery practice in the Midwest to experience the blood, guts, and gore of brain surgery at a forward marine hospital during the Vietnam War. In Blood on China Beach, Pitlyk, a neurosurgeon from the Mayo Clinic, shares the story of how he learned his craft in a rudimentary hospital in Vietnam, twelve thousand miles from home. This memoir picks up where most Vietnam battlefield memoirs leave offwhen the choppers deliver the dead and gravely wounded to the field hospitals and the dedicated doctors and medical staff struggle under primitive and unsterile conditions to preserve life. In this environment, Pitlyk was charged with carrying out emergency neurosurgery on those soldiers sustaining head injuries. He details both the emotional and professional factors that played a role in his service and provides a unique perspective to the Vietnam War. Insightful and historically significant, Blood on China Beach shows Pitlyks reverence for life and his admiration for the bravery of the marines he operated on, even as he questioned his own ability to make a difference. This memoir shows Pauls evolution from child to man and from neophyte to surgeon.