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Alister Brass, MA, BM, BCh

JAMA. 1970;213(9):1473-1475.

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Can any good thing come out of Indochina except half a million Americans on their way home? Ironically, yes: advances in medical knowledge and, for those physicians who have spent time there, a world of experience they could never have gained at home. This paradox is brought out in two fine new books^1,2 by physicians who are Vietnam veterans. But though Dr. Bourne and Dr. Eccles Smith both write as medical specialists— Bourne as a psychiatrist with a team studying stress from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Eccles Smith the surgeon in charge of a civilian hospital in a battered coastal province—the scope of their reporting goes beyond the clinical. Their stories will give scant comfort to those who believe that the "battle for the hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese is being won by the government of the South and its allies, and that without peace . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Scientific Publications Division, American Medical Association, Chicago.

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