The Dressing Station (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Kaplan
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Autobiography and current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Doctors, England or English people, War, London, Medicine, South Africa or South Africans, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Elephants, Hospitals, Industry, Great Britain, Food supply
The playwright Anthony Shaffer has been quoted as saying that a man should have a new career e-very five years. Jonathan Kaplan has done just that and more. Forsaking the comfort and security of conventional medical practice, he has pursued his own personal search for a meaningful professional life in remote corners of the globe. He began his extraordinary career as a hospital surgeon, then became a researcher, a field trauma surgeon on the front lines in a number of war zones, a ship’s medical officer, a flying doctor, a freelance journalist, a documentary filmmaker, and an...
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