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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war's absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war. He lifts the cover on a world rarely ever seen, let alone written about, and provides a poignant counterpoint to the archetypical, adrenaline-packed, macho tale of what it is like to go to war.Here the crude and visceral coexist with the tender and affectionate. The author tells of well-meaning soldiers at hospital reception, there to deliver a pair of legs in the belief that these can be reattached to their comrade, now in mid-surgery; of midsummer Christmas parties and pancake breakfasts and late-night sauna sessions; of interpersonal rivalries and banter; of caring too little or too much; of tenderness and compassion fatigue; of hell and redemption; of heroism and of playing God. While many good firsthand accounts of war by frontline soldiers exist, this is one of the first books ever to bring to life the experience of the surgical teams tasked with mending what war destroys.

Surgery, Military --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Military hospitals --- Medicine, Military --- Medical care.

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Medicine, Military. --- Special operations (Military science) --- Guerrilla warfare. --- Guerrillas --- Medical care.

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Military nursing. --- Nurses --- Nurses and nursing --- Registered nurses --- RNs (Registered nurses) --- Medical personnel --- Medicine, Military --- Nursing --- Psychology. --- United States

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Medicine, Military --- Medical policy --- Soldiers --- Armed Forces --- Medical care --- Military Health System (U.S.) --- United States --- Medical care.

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"The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) strives to maintain a physically and psychologically healthy, mission-ready force, and the care provided by the Military Health System (MHS) is critical to meeting this goal. Attention has been directed to ensuring the quality and availability of programs and services for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. This report is a comprehensive assessment of the quality of care delivered by the MHS in 2013-2014 for over 38,000 active-component service members with PTSD or depression. The assessment includes performance on 30 quality measures to evaluate the receipt of recommended assessments and treatments. These measures draw on multiple data sources including administrative encounter data, medical record review data, and patient self-reported outcome monitoring data. The assessment identified strengths and areas for improvement for the MHS. In particular, the MHS excels at screening for suicide risk and substance use, but rates of appropriate follow-up for service members with suicide risk are lower. Most service members received at least some psychotherapy, but less than half of psychotherapy delivered was evidence-based. In analyses focused on Army soldiers, outcome monitoring increased notably over time, yet preliminary analyses suggest that more work is needed to ensure that services are effective in reducing symptoms. When comparing performance between 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, most measures demonstrated slight improvement, but targeted efforts will be needed to support further improvements. RAND provides recommendations for strategies to improve the quality of care delivered for these conditions"--Table of contents page

Medicine, Military --- Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Depression, Mental --- Soldiers --- Evaluation. --- Treatment --- Mental health --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Medical care