No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0310338034 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great book, great insight. What the war is like "inside the wire" Mike Giles This book really took me back to my own time in Iraq. Dr. Warren got to Balad AB a few months after I left (the first time). It was surreal reading his accounts of things that happened on base and places he visited that I had been to. Even the cover photo is the entrance to the hospital at Balad, I remember standing under it.He spends time in this book unpacking what he saw and experienced, along with his interactions with the locals and other service members. You can follow his change from someone living one life, to having a perspective change in the heat of combat. Then Dr. Warren deals wit. "no place to hide" according to brad. Incredible book It gave me new incite into courage of our troops, medical military doctors, and chaplains.My son is an Army Chaplain who deployed to war three times. I have a greater than ever respect, always had respect, but this really told the story. The book drives home the point that as Americans we have freedom to vote and should vote no matter your political feelings. People are dying for that freedom. That is what our young men and women are fighting to help achieve in Iraq. After reading this, I am so very blessed to be an American and yes freedom is not free. Our young men and women . Heart warming Gregory R. Whitlow When I began this book I had no idea what I was getting into as I had never read anything by a wartime surgeon. Dr. Warren lets you feel what he is feeling as he recounts the horribleness of war injuries, but he also opens up about how own personal struggles, learning in the end that he cannot control everything but must trust God.
W. Whether you are in the midst of your own crisis of faith, failed relationship, financial struggle, or illness, you will be inspired to remember that how you respond determines whether you survive—spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes physically.It is the beginning of a long journey home.. Lee Warren’s life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the Air Force in Iraq in 2004. A War Zone of the SoulDr. When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, he was already reeling from months of personal struggle.At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Warren realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty—surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair the damages of a war that raged around every detail of every day. No place was safe, and the constant barrage wore down every possible defense, physical or psychological.One day, clad only in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and running shoes, Warren was caught in the open while round after round of mortars shook the earth and shattered the air with their explosions, stripping him of everything he had been trying so desperately to hold on to.Warren’s story is an example of how a person can go from a place of
Maroon, MD, , Team Neurosurgeon, The Pittsburgh Steelers . “As a combat brain surgeon, Lee Warren graphically and compassionately exposes the unspeakable horrors of our hellish war in Iraq--hidden from all not there. For him physically and emotionally there was indeed no place to hide, but his descriptive eloquence elicits deep appreciation and respect for him and the thousands of others who have been scarred on our behalf.” -- Joseph C
W. He practices minimally invasive brain and spinal surgery, develops new technologies with his wife through their company, Warren Innovation, and is an affiliate professor of biomedical sciences at Auburn University. He lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife and business partner, Lisa Warren, and their children. Warren has a BS in Biochemistry from Oklahoma Christ