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Coppola

Overview

More than a year has passed since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, and Iraq's health care system is tumbling into crisis. With the war still raging and thousands of Iraqi doctors fleeing the country for fear of their lives, the U.S.'s Balad Air Base is becoming a last refuge for nearby Iraqi families seeking care for their children. One night a young four-year-old girl whose family's home was firebombed is rushed to the base with burns covering more than forty percent of her body. Her only hope for survival is a difficult skin transplant that Lt. Col. Dr. Chris Coppola must perform against the orders of the commanding trauma czar. Weeks later, a family of Bedouins, seeking treatment for a young boy's hernia, arrive at the gate of Balad Air Base with a crumpled piece of paper bearing only Dr. Coppola's name and the phrase, "doctor for children," written in Arabic. Many others follow: a boy with leishmaniasis, a pseudohermaphrodite, a two-year-old child with bullet lodged in his brain.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    NTI Upstream

  • Publish Date

    January 31, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    0984053115

  • eBook ISBN

    9780984053124

  • Imprint

    NTI Upstream

  • Filesize

    788.92 KB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    265

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