Pulse Magazine: My War Story
After a long gestation, Pulse Magazine is finally up and running. The Magazine has just published its fourth piece: My War Story by Marc Tumerman, MD. The story relates a doctor’s response to the health and emotional problems of an Iraqi War vet the author calls Captain America. In publishing this story Pulse is fulfilling its mission of “publishing personal accounts of illness and healing” as well as “fostering the humanistic practice of medicine.”
My War Story begins this way:
My practice is in a small rural Wisconsin town just down the road from a large military base. I see soldiers pretty regularly these days; they stay here for several weeks of pre-deployment training before shipping off to Iraq. They come from all over the country–men and women of various ages, some single, some married and with families. Their health-care needs aren’t too different from those of my civilian patients: maternity care, chronic illness management and the usual scrapes and bruises. I like having them on my schedule; their Boston accents and Georgia drawls make a pleasant change from my neighbors’ familiar, made-for-radio Midwestern monotone. [click here to read the rest]
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