Reviews

Trauma Red: The Making of a Surgeon in War and in America's Cities by Peter Rhee, Gordon Dillow

ejdecoster's review against another edition

2.0

Fairly interesting stories, but the writing was a little dry for my taste. Rhee admits that he has a dry sense of humor, but I found his writing lacking in affect - he used the same language and tone whether he was talking about young victims of gunshot wounds or detonating unused mortar bombs. This neutrality, and his reliance on jargon in lieu of description, made the book much less compelling than the stories themselves would indicate. However, I could imagine that somebody particularly interested in military or medical non-fiction fans, meaning there's certainly an audience, it's just not me.