Crossings

Description:

"In Iraq, as a combat physician and officer, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives - to heal and to kill. When he suffered an injury and then a stroke during his third tour, he wound up back home in Iowa, no longer able to be either a doctor or a soldier. In this gorgeous memoir that moves from his impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within."--

subjects: Physicians,  Cerebrovascular disease,  Brain damage,  United States,  Post-traumatic stress disorder,  Patients,  American Personal narratives,  Flight surgeons,  Medical care,  Iraq War, 2003-2011,  United States. Army,  Disabled veterans,  Biography,  United states, army, biography,  Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives,  Physicians, biography,  Cerebrovascular disease, patients, biography,  Brain damage, patients,  Veterans

People: Jon Kerstetter

Places: United States