I obtained this book with great interest. I was a corpsman with the 3d Mar Div in quang tri province the same year that this doctor was in country.
A better title for this book would be "My Personal Struggle with PTSD". This book is a descent into the twisted life of a twice tortured man-first as a child and then as an Army doctor.
I find this book vulgar on several levels. First and foremost the claims Dr.
Dr. Parrish writing style places you in the moment and you get a sense of what it was like to be in the bush and experience war up close and personal.
Dr. Parrish writes an extremely intimate portrait of a man and physician who is thrown into an alien world in more ways than one.
The book description of Autopsy of War suggests this successful dermatologist, John Parrish, will look at his four decade struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a topic I've grown more interested in as I've read ever more soldier memoirs. But after reading more than two-thirds of it, I returned it to the library.
This autobiography reveals a successful physician at the top of his profession who has struggled with undiagnosed post-traumatic-stress disease (PTSD) for over forty years. The author, Dr.
In a society where people are getting further and further away from sincerity, I found this book very sincere and honest. The part where he was telling about how people were asking him about his Vietnam days but when he used to start explaining the reality, nobody wanted to listen any further, this reminded me of people asking me 'how I'm doing today?
I was disappointed in how the author was treated post-Vietnam. These peace lovers, these baby boomers we call Americans, were ill-informed and thought most of the soldiers actually wanted to be in a land we had no business interfering with.
Another great book giving the perspective of a Navy Doctor in country, brought back many bad memories but after the crying and the sadness came the acknowledgement "I was not alone".
If you like to pick scabs, you'll love this book. That might sound insulting, but the reference to scab-picking is the author's: on p.
I'm not a big fan of war books, so that's probably why I only gave it three stars. But if you like that kind of thing you might enjoy the book more!.
