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Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Little, Brown and Company
November 2007
On Sale: October 24, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0316067903
EAN: 9780316067904
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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