Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
 

Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57

by MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a
journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed’s amputee wing


Time magazine’s Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of U.S. Army Humvee, an embedded reporter alongside soldiers from the 1st Armored Division, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small,... (read more)

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This was a required read for a class of mine. As a physical therapist, the insite into the life of amputees was a brillian adition to my clinical knowledge. It is well written, but sometimes jumps around in parts and once in a while is a bit dry. It very accurately discribes rehabilitation with a prosthetic.

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