<span itemprop="author">Michael J. Collins, MD

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War is really not all it’s cracked up to be

An excerpt from All Bleeding Stops. 42nd Surgical Hospital Phu Bai Republic of Vietnam December 1967 Private Ira Stein has so many wounds, has lost so much blood, that the corpsmen nearly bring him straight to Graves. Steve Benson can’t get a pressure….

Exposure in surgery is everything

An excerpt from All Bleeding Stops. 42nd Surgical Hospital Phu Bai Republic of Vietnam August 1967 They hear them before they see them, the deep, thudding whump of the rotors pounding in their brains, booming in their chests. The choppers come at them,…