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Mark G. Kortepeter

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Dr. Kortepeter is an infectious disease and public health physician, scientist, and retired Army colonel. He spent 7 1/2 years at the "hot zone" lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. His career has spanned the hospital, the lab, the lecture hall, the corner office, the battlefield, and other remote field settings. ...more

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Inside the Hot Zone: A Sold...

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MASH by Richard Hooker
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The book that spawned the hit movie and TV series is probably the best book I have read that captures effectively my own experience with the conflicting humorous and tragic aspects of military medicine in a deployed environment.
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Spillover by David Quammen
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I was a bit slow getting into this book at first - I think partly because there were long gaps between the times I was able to sit down and concentrate. However, once I became absorbed in it, it flowed well. Quammen has a nice, folksy way of bringing ...more
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Lab 257 by Michael Christopher Carroll
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This book provided me some useful history on the origins of the Plum Island animal disease lab, its mission, and its challenges. Stories are included about various accidents and the author also theorizes about whether Lyme disease and West Nile virus ...more
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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This is the story of an American military ambulance driver working in the Italian army who is injured from an explosion. While recovering, he falls in love with a British nurse. I enjoyed two prior Hemingway books ("Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the ...more
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
" I re-read this for the first time since high school. The social implications of the drive for dominance and inevitable conflict remain relevant, plus ...more "
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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
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I read this years ago and re-read it recently. I like the way he sets this up as a classified report at the beginning and the way he brings science and medicine into determining how to control the deadly outbreak. It still is one of the originals of ...more
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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I heard about this book through friends in college and decided to tackle it to understand what the attraction was. The author commits the cardinal sin of being too wedded to her subject, using lengthy diatribes from her characters, especially Ellswor ...more
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