One Vast Hospital
Author | : Terry Reimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Terry Reimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Madden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2002 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Power Lowry |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011-01-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781453810859 |
One-hundred fifty years after the Civil War, there are still untold stories. Over 11,000 surgeons served in the Union army; 10,400 were well behaved. The other 600 were in trouble for embezzlement, insubordination, rape, AWOL, desertion, surliness, stealing food, and a host of other misdeeds. One man was deemed, "Drunk, but not too drunk to operate." Another was hopping into the beds of women in the VD hospital. Yet another forged his own performance reports, reporting his own excellent character. A statistical study compares their incidence of malpractice with one of today's mid-West states.These remarkable stories are accompanied by full citations and are indexed by regiment. An eye-opener and a much-needed reference work.
Author | : Kevin R. Pawlak |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1626199256 |
Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 brought thousands of wounded Confederates into the town's homes, churches and warehouses. The story of Shepherdstown's transformation into "one vast hospital" recounts nightmarish scenes of Confederate soldiers under the caring hands of an army of surgeons and civilians.
Author | : Gregory Coco |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1940669790 |
“An extremely detailed history of 160 hospital sites that formed to care for soldiers who were wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.” —Civil War Cycling Nearly 26,000 men were wounded in the three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). It didn’t matter if the soldier wore blue or gray or was an officer or enlisted man, for bullets, shell fragments, bayonets, and swords made no class or sectional distinction. Almost 21,000 of the wounded were left behind by the two armies in and around the small town of 2,400 civilians. Most ended up being treated in makeshift medical facilities overwhelmed by the flood of injured. Many of these and their valiant efforts are covered in Greg Coco’s A Vast Sea of Misery. The battle to save the wounded was nearly as terrible as the battle that placed them in such a perilous position. Once the fighting ended, the maimed and suffering warriors could be found in churches, public buildings, private homes, farmhouses, barns, and outbuildings. Thousands more, unreachable or unable to be moved remained in the open, subject to the uncertain whims of the July elements. As one surgeon unhappily recalled, “No written nor expressed language could ever picture the field of Gettysburg! Blood! blood! And tattered flesh! Shattered bones and mangled forms almost without the semblance of human beings!” Based upon years of firsthand research, Coco’s A Vast Sea of Misery introduces readers to 160 of those frightful places called field hospitals. It is a sad journey you will never forget, and you won’t feel quite the same about Gettysburg once you finish reading.
Author | : Kevin Pawlak |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540213471 |
Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. Marching armies, sounds of battle and fear of war had arrived on their doorsteps by the summer of 1862. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 brought thousands of wounded Confederates into the town's homes, churches and warehouses. The story of Shepherdstown's transformation into "one vast hospital" recounts nightmarish scenes of Confederate soldiers under the caring hands of an army of surgeons and civilians. Author Kevin R. Pawlak retraces the horrific accounts of Shepherdstown as a Civil War hospital town.
Author | : Gary L. Dyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781716415418 |
This book provides biographies of all of the known Confederate dead buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. Also included are narratives of how and where each soldier received the wounds or developed the sickness that eventually took their lives. Appendices show a roster of the dead along Confederate Row and a list of the regiments they served.
Author | : Paul Starr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780465079353 |
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review
Author | : Shannon Brownlee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2010-06-25 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1596917296 |
Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive. Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured, while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Shannon Brownlee's humane, intelligent, and penetrating analysis empowers readers to avoid the perils of overtreatment, as well as pointing the way to better health care for everyone.
Author | : Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570031557 |
This work tells the story of Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, an innovative Confederate doctor and medical director of the Army of Tennessee, and his successful administration and establishment of more than sixty mobile military hospitals scattered throughout the western theatre.