medical care

Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.

The authors detail the fight for their daughter, Juniper, who was born four months early, and weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces.

Canadian doctor Martina Scholtens shares her experiences at a refugee clinic and the connections she made with her patients.

Three young U.S. Army doctors struggle to make the best of a dangerous and challenging situation when they are assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War.

Michael Donnelly discusses why he thinks that he contracted Lou Gehrig's Disease because of the time he spent fighting in the Gulf War and explains what he is doing to help other Gulf War veterans prove that they were exposed to chemical agents in the war.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program (MILPHAP). Because it seemed an honorable as well as a doable enterprise he volunteered and began keeping a journal. At the time he appreciated the varied interactions with people of different relitious, social, radical, and ethnic cultures. But then he encountered a culture shock that proved toxic and threatened to corrupt everything.

Discusses the resources and support available to LGBT youth to deal with shame, rejection, low self-esteem, and other issues that may lead to health problems like obesity and substance abuse.

"The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. They called him a coward, but the soft-spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. Herndon shares the story of how Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor"--OCLC.

Presents narratives in which women who served as U.S. Army nurses during World War II share memories of their experiences near or in the combat zones of Europe and the Mediterranean.

Briefly examines the life of Desmond Doss, a Christian man who was at first ridiculed for his refusal to carry a weapon into war during World War II. However, on Okinawa, Desmond showed bravery nonetheless by carrying his wounded comrades to safety and won the Congressional Medal of Honor.