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04096aam a2200589Mi 4500 001 895BF3C8AEA111E9B7E4734297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190725010030 008 170717t20172017nyu e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1101904399 020 $a 9781101904398 035 $a (OCoLC)1057607867 040 $a KOTUI $b eng $e rda $c KOTUI $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Kerstetter, Jon, $e author. 245 10 $a Crossings : $b a doctor-soldier's story / $c Jon Kerstetter. 246 30 $a Doctor-soldier's story 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Crown, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 342 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a ""Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn life, one that began in poverty on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin but grew by force of will to encompass a remarkable medical practice. Trained as an emergency physician, Kerstetter's thirst for intensity led him to volunteer in war-torn Rwanda, Kosovo, and Bosnia, and to join the Army National Guard. His three tours in the Iraq War marked the height of the American struggle there. The story of his work in theatre, which involved everything from saving soldiers' lives to organizing the joint U.S.-Iraqi forensics team tasked with identifying the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons, is a bracing, unprecedented evocation of a doctor's life at war. But war was only the start of Kerstetter's struggle. The stroke he suffered upon returning from Iraq led to serious cognitive and physical disabilities. His years-long recovery, impeded by near-unbearable pain and complicated by PTSD, meant overcoming the perceived limits of his body and mind and reimagining his own capacity for renewal and change. It led him not only to writing as a vocation but to a deeper understanding of how healing means accepting a new identity, and how that acceptance must be fought for with as much tenacity as any battlefield victory." 600 10 $a Kerstetter, Jon. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Flight surgeons $v Biography. 600 17 $a Kerstetter, Jon. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01987509 610 17 $a United States. $b Army. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 611 27 $a Iraq War (2003-2011) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01802311 650 0 $a Physicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Iraq War, 2003-2011 $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a Iraq War, 2003-2011 $x Medical care. 650 0 $a Cerebrovascular disease $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Brain damage $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Post-traumatic stress disorder $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Disabled veterans $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Armed Forces $x Flight surgeons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01982089 650 7 $a Brain damage $x Patients. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837724 650 7 $a Cerebrovascular disease $x Patients. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00851377 650 7 $a Disabled veterans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894659 650 7 $a Medical care. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01013753 650 7 $a Physicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01062841 650 7 $a Post-traumatic stress disorder $x Patients. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01072768 651 7 $a Iraq. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205757 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 2003-2011 $2 fast 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Personal narratives $v American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424071 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190824012525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=895BF3C8AEA111E9B7E4734297128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search