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Is the Hippocratic Oath rewritten in a combat zone when abiding by the moral code of war, not peace? The fact is warriors, corpsmen, nurses, and physicians usually existed and functioned within a moral limbo, vacillating between both the moral codes of peace and war. In Vietnam, when I triaged a mass causality in the ED, I condemned the very most seriously wounded, who may have been salvageable, to death in order to treat others with a better prognosis. Is it intellectually honest for the public to apply and therefore judge a warrior's actions by the moral code of peace, while safe at home, as the warrior is fighting to stay alive and being guided by the moral code of war: the concept of justified killing versus murder? For years I attempted to rationalize my actions in Vietnam, some of which were immoral by the stateside moral code of peace, and to modify my complete disdain for the Vietnamese. Time did soften my war-zone feelings. A chance meeting with a brilliant Vietnamese medical student completed my exoneration. Today, I'm finally home. Not welcomed by our ungrateful citizens but by the steadfastness of my wife's support and my self-generated efforts to become resurrected from my mental morass. My wish is to relate a truthful accounting of war and equip the reader in their better understanding of its aftermath and how easily we in recent years have ignored these historical lessons.

About the Author :
Gus Kappler served as a trauma surgeon at the 85th Evacuation Hospital, Phu Bai, Vietnam, '70-''71. Retired 2000 after 30 years practicing surgery in Amsterdam, NY; spend the winters in NYC; first book was Welcome Home From Vietnam, Finally, A Vietnam Trauma Surgeon's Memoir; currently working on Falciquin, a medical mystery.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781925880670
  • Publisher: Tablo Pty Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Tablo Pty Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 372 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1925880672
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Vietnam Trauma Surgeon's Memoir
  • Width: 152 mm


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