RIVER CITY a nurse year in Vietnam eBook Patricia L Walsh
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Patricia L. Walsh grew up the eighth of fifteen children in a poor Minnesota farm family, working her way through nursing school and anesthesia training. In 1967, she volunteered to go to Vietnam to care for civilians caught in the crossfire. She injured her back in the Tet Offensive and returned home in denial of the severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) she had developed. Paramount Pictures optioned her story for Cher the year she won Best Actress, but the project went into turnaround when they couldn't get a good script. RIVER CITY chronicles the dedication, self sacrifice, trials and triumphs of practicing combat medicine.
“Pat Walsh had a unique experience for a young woman. She volunteered to go to Vietnam and work as a nurse at a hospital in Danang. She spent more than a year witnessing the dehumanizing chaos that war creates. She experienced not only the horror of war for the victims of injury and death, but the psychological impact on human beings. Her story is a fascinating insight into what war does to people through the eyes of a woman.” Charlie Rose
Pat Walsh also produced, wrote, directed and narrated The Other Angels, a documentary about her Vietnam medical team. It won the People’s Choice Award at the Denver International Film Festival, aired across the country on PBS, was named Booklist Editors’ Choice by the American Library Association, and won a Gracie and the Grand Award from American Women in Radio and Television.
RIVER CITY a nurse year in Vietnam eBook Patricia L Walsh
This is a great book and the only one I've found that details what it was like to be a medical professional working with civilians in Vietnam from a US perspective. Even better that it offers a year in the life of a woman, when normally all you can find is accounts from men. I became caught up in Pat's life and worried for her and her friends and the patients they dealt with daily. I cried, laughed and was angry yet like Pat there were things that made me smile too in her recolections. I wonder what happened to many. I believe their stories will live on in my memory now too...maybe that is the greatest gift you can give...remembering keeps them alive. Definately a book worth reading once...I'll probably read it several more times too.Product details
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RIVER CITY a nurse year in Vietnam eBook Patricia L Walsh Reviews
One of the best true life books I've read. What an incredible story so powerful.
I did enjoy this Minnesota author as she tells the story of her experiences while in Vietnam.
It is worth the read.
This story will rip your heart out! The tale of a young woman's experience as a nurse in Vietnam during the war, it is told mostly with dialogue and has a great cast of characters. Somebody should make a movie out of this deeply moving memoir.
This book made me laugh and cry. Great reading, never dull.
Very good book. I don't know that I have ever cried reading a book but I sure did reading this one. It was very well written and made me feel like I was right there with them in that hell-hole.
Patty Walsh (She was Patti Maher when we met at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the late 60's near the end if the VietNam war.) She like d it here so much she built a house in a neighboring, developing community about 30 minutes away. Here she met her husband who worked at Wallops Island, also near-by. Back problems had always plagued hed & while she recouperated from her many painful flareups, she wrote this book. We went through her first book as she hammered it out & tried to adopt a little girl. She succeeded at both, wrote more, including a screenplay which won her honors & visits on national broadcast television. Waaaay back when such a thing as "journalists" existed...not too many years ago.
What an amazing in your face experience of a young woman who went to Vietnam full of innocence and hope to make a difference to the sick & injured civilian casualties of the Vietnam war. Its hard to read some of the descriptions of what Pat experienced and had to deal with. I really liked her stories of the camaraderie that existed and how terrible situations can bring out the best in people (and the worst). But what a sacrifice to go to such a hellhole and give your all and have no support or understanding from those back home. Being a true story there was no happy ending just the awful destruction war brings to everyone and everything. However I wanted to acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of people like Pat who gave so much to people that really needed them. I would definitely recommend this book to people who enjoy the humanitarian stories of people working in a war zone. I found it a great read because it was a true life adventure of a young nurse who found love but also a whole lot more than she expected and how it affected her.
This is a great book and the only one I've found that details what it was like to be a medical professional working with civilians in Vietnam from a US perspective. Even better that it offers a year in the life of a woman, when normally all you can find is accounts from men. I became caught up in Pat's life and worried for her and her friends and the patients they dealt with daily. I cried, laughed and was angry yet like Pat there were things that made me smile too in her recolections. I wonder what happened to many. I believe their stories will live on in my memory now too...maybe that is the greatest gift you can give...remembering keeps them alive. Definately a book worth reading once...I'll probably read it several more times too.
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