All Bleeding Stops by Michael J. Collins
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Description All Bleeding Stops by Michael J. Collins
The best and the brightest may have been drawn to politics in the sixties, but the caring and compassionate have been drawn to medicine for centuries. All too often, however, the sensitivity that leads young men and women to a career in medicine becomes the instrument of their own destruction. They simply care too much. Nowhere is this cruel irony more clearly seen than in the setting of war.
Matthew Barrett is an idealistic young surgeon, fresh out of residency, who is drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. Sensitive and compassionate to a fault, he has trouble adjusting to life as a combat surgeon. His inexperience shames him. His failures torment him. In heart-rending detail, we witness the effect that constant exposure to death and dying has on an overly sensitive soul. We watch Matthew’s gradual disintegration as he tries desperately to care for the mutilated and dying patients brought to him. His compassion brings him nothing but pain, which he tries to drown in alcohol and denial as he spirals inexorably toward psychological disintegration. Only the love of Therese, one of the nurses seems capable of saving him – but will their love survive the horrors of war?
From combat surgeon in Vietnam to transplant doctor in Ohio to relief physician in Biafra, Matthew learns that in the end love and compassion, rather than being the instruments of his destruction, are the means of his salvation.
Praise All Bleeding Stops by Michael J. Collins
“A harrowing, evocative drama about the ravages of war and the power of compassion.”—Kirkus Reviews
“With the deft precision of a surgeon and the impassioned sensibility of a poet, Michael Collins . . . tells the harrowing, heartbreaking tale of Navy Lt. Matthew Barrett.”—Bryan Gruley, Edgar-nominated author of the Starvation Lake and Bleak Harbor series
“Battlefields and operating rooms explode onto the pages of All Bleeding Stops. The details are vivid, unrelenting, and impossible to forget.”—Ross Pennie, author of the Dr. Zol Szabo medical mystery series
“A superbly fast-moving, intriguing and immersive ride.”—Michele Weldon, best-selling author of I Closed My Eyes and Act Like You’re Having a Good Time
About Michael J. Collins
MICHAEL COLLINS spent several years working as a construction laborer, truck driver, cab driver and dockworker, trying to get into medical school. After completing his residency at the Mayo Clinic, where he served as Chief Resident in Orthopedic Surgery, Dr. Collins and his wife moved back home to Chicago where they, and most of their now-grown twelve children, still live.
He has lectured extensively on topics relating to medicine and writing. In writing this book, he hopes to raise awareness of the difficulty doctors face in learning to care – without caring too much. The very qualities – compassion, sensitivity, dedication – that often lead young people to a career in medicine, often make it difficult for them to reconcile their ideals with the cold, hard reality of morbidity and mortality: conditions no amount of caring can ever change.
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