Simple prose with complex and surging undercurrents.. | Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat...

Excellent read | Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital | Heidi Squier Kraft

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	• Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital Heidi Squier Kraft Little, Brown and Company, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great medical memoir!

All I can say is that this woman really did her share of caring for critically wounded soldiers. She is a heroine of the first order! Kudos to her and those like her serving our country. Her story should be shared and discussed everywhere.

Simple prose with complex and surging undercurrents..

..is how I would describe this book. It is not wriiten in complex and deep philosophical style, but its simple, honest and sometimes heart-rending frankness and bare-all simplicity makes it powerful and moving. A soldiers suffering is palpable and deeply felt, but you will admire the courage that calmly masks the underlying longing for family, and the plainly written details of turnoil from witnessing the psychological devastation of fellow soldiers will move your heart.

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Excellent read

This book offers very powerful insight to the struggle of mental health specialists in the field of combat. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in psychology and combat medicine. Even if you're not, this book is certainly worth it.

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Rule #2

This was a very good book. It gave me a better appreciation for what our troops are going through in Iraq and Afghanistan - from the point of view of a young mother serving her country.

When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer.
One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.

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