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With honesty and candor, and an offthewall, selfdeprecating humor that sustained him and his battle buddies through their darkest. Dave hnida the author recounts his experiences as a physician in iraq after volunteering to work as a surgeon with a combat unit in 2004 and as trauma chief at a busy combat support hospital in 2007, with. Pdf paradise general download full pdf book download. Hnida even mentions some of the parallels of his work and the tv show.
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