To Bind Up Their Wounds

To Bind Up Their Wounds forms a poetic memoir spanning two generations of men living in peace and in wartime. Dr. Trueblood's father's fifty-year career as a country doctor was punctuated by a three-year stint overseas in World War II. The author's forty years in general surgery was permanently colored by a year in a hospital unit in Da Nang, Vietnam. There is a sense that medicine for both father and son was much more than a profession-it was a calling and a passion and served as a great opening into the lives of peoples.