- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.
Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable, if demanding, practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, he was already reeling from months of personal struggle.
At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Warren realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty--surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair the damages of a war that raged around every detail of every day. No place was safe, and the constant barrage wore down every possible defense, physical or psychological.
One day, clad only in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and running shoes, Warren was caught in the open while round after round of mortars shook the earth and shattered the air with their explosions, stripping him of everything he had been trying so desperately to hold on to.
In No Place to Hide, Warren tells his story in a brand-new light, sharing how you can:
- Discover who you are under pressure
- Lean on faith in your darkest days
- Find the strength to carry on, no matter what you're facing
Whether you are in the midst of your own struggles with faith, relationships, finances, or illness, No Place to Hide will teach you that how you respond in moments of crisis can determine your chances of survival.
Praise for No Place to Hide:
"No Place to Hide captures simply, eloquently, and passionately what it means to be a physician in time of war. Over ten years of war, we safely air evacuated more than ninety thousand injured and ill from Iraq and Afghanistan--five thousand were the sickest of the sick. This very personal story captures the essence of what it takes to be a military physician and the challenge for our nation to reintegrate all who deploy to war."
--Lt. Gen. (ret.) C. Bruce Green, MD, 20th AF Surgeon General
"Through Warren's eyes we observe not only the delicate mechanics of brain surgery but also its lifelong effects on real people and their families, both when the surgery succeeds and when it fails. Thank you, Lee Warren, for letting us see the world through your own unique vantage point. Thank you for the lives you saved, for the compassion you showed, for the faith you rediscovered, for reminding us of the precious gift of life."
--Philip Yancey, bestselling author of The Jesus I Never Knew
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Maintain Control, Lee
- 2. Just a Little Bomb; Nobody Died
- 3. Everywhere I Looked, I Saw Dirt
- 4. No Skull Bone On Left, Handle Carefully
- 5. For the First Time In My Career, I Didn’t Know What to Do
- 6. I’m Not the Only One Getting Shot At Here
- 7. I Can Still See His Face and Smell His Blood
- 8. Glasgow Coma Score of Seven
- 9. “Daddy, Come Home Right Now!”
- 10. The Iraqi Toddler
- 11. This Kid’s Gonna Die, and It’s My Fault
- 12. A Very Odd Skull
- 13. “Get That Cat Outta Here!”
- 14. The Night Vania’s Family Was Shot
- 15. Plugged Rockets and Homemade Biological Weapons
- 16. They Were Still Screaming When the Choppers Landed
- 17. I Saw In 2137 Everything I Hated In the World
- 18. We’ll All Get Through This Together
- 19. Purple Ink: The Mark of Freedom
- 20. Freezing to Death In a Muddy Hole
- 21. The American Soldier, the Terrorist, and the Blood Drive
- 22. Rose Is My Daughter’s Age
- 23. His Grip Loosened and His Hand Dropped Out of Mine
- 24. Our Next Stop Was Abu Ghraib
- 25. Baghdad: A Beautiful, Broken Place
- 26. You Got to Keep Moving or You Get Hit, Bro
- 27. We Have a Special Patient Here Tonight
- 28. Not So Good Friday
- 29. It’s Going to Take a Whole Series of Miracles
- 30. No Place to Hide
- 31. Saying Goodbye
- 32. And Then I Lost My Mind
- 33. Unpacking the Bags
- 34. Long Journey Home
- Photo Insert
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments