Автор:Richard H. German Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 344 ISBN: 9781608444656 Faced with a multitude of challenges, Dr. German captures the very personal and arduous journey to become a young surgeon, starting as a hopeful prep school student in Connecticut and ending as a surgeon in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam conflict. His metamorphosis from student to surgeon is poignant, sensitive and heartwarming, and gives insight into the emotions that a professional must confront and eventually transcend for success in this most intimate and demanding of all medical fields. "From the first page of this book, I felt up on a surfboard and riding this wave, taking every turn and surge with ease-when I thought I would fall off or become temporarily blinded by a wall of unfamiliar information I remained standing-riding this wave of this-I don't know what-this guy's journey. Dr. German's writing is super-likable, engaging and immediate. Having grown up back East, done the boarding school thing and been a bit of a 'chart my own course kinda guy'-I could...