The patient was Vietcong, an American doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-1967, Lawrence H. Climo, M.D
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The patient was Vietcong, an American doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-1967, Lawrence H. Climo, M.D
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index
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contains biographical information
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non fiction
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The patient was Vietcong
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bibliography
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862575428
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Lawrence H. Climo, M.D
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an American doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-1967
Summary
"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. Because it seemed an honorable as well as a doable enterprise he volunteered and began keeping a journal"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
1. Backgrounds : theirs, ours and mine -- 2. Citizen-soldiering -- 3. I volunteer for a special program -- 4. In-country : Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) -- 5. The Central Highlands : initiation -- 6. Ban me thuot : an unorthodox practice -- 7. Disconnects and flash-points -- 8. Mobile trips into the countryside -- 9. Lamentations and harmonies -- 10. Fault lines: Honor, trust and caring -- 11. Fault lines: Health, truth and integrity -- 12. This story's coda -- 13. Returning home and moving on, then going back -- Postscript -- Appendices
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