Medic


When Breath Becomes Air
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Shatter (Unbreakable Bonds #2)
How Doctors Think
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
The Trouble With Tony (Sex in Seattle, #1)
The Shearing Gun
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
The Doctor's Heart (Carlisle Medical, #1)
Just a Bit Wrong (Straight Guys, #4)
You can't imagine what the interior of sixteen or eighteen cubic feet is like with all of these people screaming, and yelling, and talking, and howling. [...] Not to mention the radio squealing. And the bullets flying. And explosions going up. You just can't imagine the chaos that goes through your head. And it requires immense concentration, and effort, to focus on what you job is. [Tom Kelley, Vietnam Medic from December 1967-December 1968, speaking about events inside the medevac helicopters] ...more
Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

Criss Jami
It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.
Criss Jami, Healology

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