Also, analyze the content of the story/issue and place it in a larger historical context. From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National. In a book report, one gives a summary of the plot, the characters, and the authors intentions. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it? Buy a cheap copy of War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery. Sheri Fink has written an engrossing, detailed description of the humanitarian disaster that occurred in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing-and ultimately enlightening-story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. The airplane was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and exploded in mid-air. He was admitted to hospital on 12 August 1865 with bone protruding from a one-a-half-inch long wound on his lower left leg. The Story: Juliane Diller (born 1954 in Lima as Juliane Margaret Koepcke) was the sole survivor of the 93 passengers and crew in the December 24, 1971, crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest. In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of. In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. James Greenlees, aged 11, had been run over by a cart. The war zone spawned the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments these physicians ever faced. A young physician-reporter chronicles the experiences of the doctors and nurses in a besieged city, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral quandaries of practicing medicine in a war zone.
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