Download or read book Rifleman Doctor written by Warren S. Gilbert MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren S. Gilbert grew up on the streets of Chicago, and no one expected him to accomplish much. Even so, his athleticism paved the way for him to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and his intellect led him to Rush Medical College. While most people would have been happy with graduating and becoming a successful physician, he grew bored and moved to Nevada for a fresh start. But as time passed, he sought more meaning out of life and he found it when various branches of the armed services began calling. With his country seeking help from qualified doctors and terrorism on the rise, he joined the US Naval Reserve. But everything changed when terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. What was supposed to have been a detour turned into a career that would lead to some of his most memorable and meaningful moments. Join Gilbert as he looks back at serving his country, fighting terrorists, and excelling as a member of the US Naval Reserve and then as a physician serving with the Marine Corps. It was all part of pulling double duty as a rifleman and doctor.
Download or read book Surgeon in Blue written by Scott McGaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major battles—Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg—that produced unprecedented numbers of casualties. He made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system. He imposed medical professionalism on a chaotic battlefield. Where before 20 percent of the men were unfit to fight because of disease, squalid conditions, and poor nutrition, he improved health and combat readiness by pioneering hygiene and diet standards. Based on original research, and with stirring accounts of battle and the struggle to invent and supply adequate care during impossible conditions, this new biography recounts Letterman’s life from his small-town Pennsylvania beginnings to his trailblazing wartime years and his subsequent life as a wildcatter and the medical examiner of San Francisco. At last, here is the missing portrait of a key figure of Civil War history and military medicine. His principles of battlefield care continue to be taught to military commanders and first responders.
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Germophobia written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 25 years, there’s always been a home in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for those stories about doctor visits or routine surgeries gone horribly wrong--the wrong limb getting amputated, the wrong person getting a transplant, the nurse who didn’t notice her patient had died...for three days. Because we never get tired of reading about big boo-boos (as long as they’re happening to someone else), here is a whole book of the troubling and funny stories of when good health care goes bad. Read all about:* The woman who needed her gall bladder out...so she removed it herself* The man who waited in an emergency room...for three weeks* The heart surgeon who got caught drawing his signature on his work* And many more stories of dreadful doctors, hospital horrors, and bad medicine.
Download or read book Recollections of a rifleman s wife at home and abroad written by F M. Fitzmaurice and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Rifleman s Wife at Home and Abroad written by Mrs. T. M. Fitzmaurice and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Directory for Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Directory for Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Rifleman s Wife at Home and Abroad written by Mrs. F. M. FITZ MAURICE and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vittoria written by Derek Cheney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-07-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vittoria has been written as a sequel to The Leopard Wakes which is an adventure/romance novel covering the Napoleonic wars from 1803 onwards. "Vittoria" starts at the disastrous retreat from Corunna, Spain, in January 1809. The main players are as follows:- 1. Artillery captain Jonathan West. He is attracted to Julia Brooks, a London socialite who does not know her own mind. Jonathan, despite being injured at Corunna, is still idealistic about pursuing the war against Napoleon and is influenced by his uncle, a colonel in the war department. For this reason he returns to Spain on special duties and then as a serving officer with his regiment. 2. Julia Brooks, sole daughter of a Chelsea broker. She is an accomplished horsewoman and has a wide circle of friends in England and Ireland.Initially she is attracted to Jonathan but her affection wavers during his prolonged absences in Spain and Portugal. Julia is swept off her feet by a family friend Hector Grant who becomes Jonathans commanding officer. 3. Hector Grant, widower and family friend of the Brooks family. He is an ambitious regular officer who succeeds in obtaining command of the horse artillery regiment and tries to steal Julias affections from Jonathan. Not popular with his men he is a blatant womaniser and has a dubious reputation at the gaming tables. He always sees Jonathan as a rival and this is reflected in his attitude to his junior officer. 4. Jacqueline Duval, daughter of a judge in Bordeaux. She is grateful to Jonathan, initially, for her rescue from Spanish guerrillas but this emotion becomes something more interesting between the two of them and the ending of the book is not what the reader might expect
Download or read book The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice.
Download or read book The Young Rifleman s Comrade written by Johan Christian Mämpel and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Recollections of Rifleman Harris written by Benjamin Randell Harris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris's unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a freshness and an invigorating spikiness' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A most vivid record of the war in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon' MAIL ON SUNDAY Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ordered to Portugal, where he marched under the burning sun, weighed down by his kit and great-coat, plus all the tools and leather he had to carry as the battalion's cobbler - 'the lapstone I took the liberty of flinging to the Devil'. Rifleman Harris was a natural story-teller with a remarkable tale to unfold, and his Recollections have become one of the most popular military books of all time.
Download or read book Random Shots from a Rifleman written by J. Kincaid and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Random Shots from a Rifleman" by J. Kincaid Sir John Kincaid of the rifle brigade served for a time as lieutenant in the North York militia. During his tenure, he was able to experience a number of adventures alongside his fellow soldiers. First, giving an overview of his family and estate, Kincaid then moves on to narrating various snapshots of what he saw and lived through in the army. This book not only allowed him to tell his story, but also made the service more accessible to civilian readers.
Download or read book British Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Rifleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Times and Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don Jose written by Ezequiel L. Ortiz and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 the Japanese invaded the Philippines with overwhelming force and forced the surrender of American troops at Bataan and Corregidor. Prisoners of war were subjected to brutal captivity and thousands did not survive. This is the story of an American soldier who survived and became a hero. When American troops liberated the Niigata POW camp after the Japanese surrender, Corporal Joseph O. Quintero greeted them with a homemade American flag that had been sewn together in secrecy. The son of Mexican immigrants, Joseph Quintero grew up in a converted railroad caboose in Fort Worth, Texas, and joined the Army to get $21 a month and three meals a day. He manned a machine gun in the defense of Corregidor before his unit was captured by the Japanese. When prisoners of war were transported to Japan, Joseph survived a razor-blade appendectomy on the “hell ship” voyage. In the prison camp he cared for his fellow prisoners as a medic and came to be known as Don Jose. Joseph’s narrative is an enlisted man’s view of the war with first-hand descriptions of conditions in the POW camps and personal glimpses of what he and his buddies did, endured and talked about. The authors have drawn on other histories and official documents to put his story into perspective and focus on a little-known chapter of World War II. EZEQUIEL L. ORTIZ is a retired military officer and public school teacher who has lived in New Mexico for the past 30 years. He has written articles on local history, Hispanic heritage and military subjects for national and regional publications. JAMES A. MCCLURE is a freelance writer, editor and public relations consultant. He is a retired Naval Reserve public affairs officer.
