Name: The Stone Elephant
Author: Buck Rish
ISBN: 9780595145096

Published:

Dec-2000
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General Fiction
Pages:

248
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The author's naval career included staff assignments at four major hospitals; a hospital ship, the USS Repose off VietNam '68-'69; and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He then returned to Norfolk, Virginia and continued his neurosurgical career in private practice and as Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School.From his challenging and extensive experience he transcends the too often impersonal world of medicine with honed skill, mixing poignancy and humor, to tell the story of a marine intelligence officer surviving a serious head injury, entering the political arena, and progressing to the White House.The author concludes the story by addressing America's healthcare problem in his graphic and verisimilar style.