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Water on the Moon: A Physician's Memoir of Service from the Vietnam War to Humanitarian Crises Worldwide

Water on the Moon: A Physician's Memoir of Service from the Vietnam War to Humanitarian Crises Worldwide

Herman, Jan K.
Snair, Megan
Burkle, Frederick M.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralVietnam War

ISBN10: 1476696640
ISBN13: 9781476696645
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Nov 22 2024
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

After struggling through a challenging childhood afflicted with asthma, overcoming dyslexia, and dealing with an abusive father, Frederick Skip Burkle was determined to become a physician. Despite the odds, he achieved that goal and then entered the Navy as a draftee. His first assignment was deployment to a combat base in South Vietnam close to the DMZ, one of the most violently contested areas in that war-torn country. Besides treating combat casualties, Dr. Burkle provided humanitarian medical care to local civilians, many of whom were suffering from the wounds of war plus living with a host of tropical diseases. That deployment not only introduced him to Vietnamese culture but also to the type of medicine he would continue to practice for the rest of his career.

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