Irish Country #9
An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War: An Irish Country Novel
Patrick Taylor, John Keating (Narator)
For this outing we jump back even further to Fingal's service as a medical lieutenant on board a battleship with a crew of 1200.
The book jumps back from the present to life on board the battleship and sees Fingal operating in a mass casualty theatre. Add having the deck beneath your feet roll and heave as you work. Picking through a man's intestines as if searching for leaks in a hose sounds awkward. And to a doctor a man in need is neither friend nor foe, just a patient in need whether he cries for mother or mutti.
We get a thorough description of child birth matched with an amputation onboard ship and three burials at sea.
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