Run, Don't Walk : The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

from Kadi1120

"And in spite of everything, he made me laugh and laugh." That sentence pretty much says it. One would assume a book about injured soldiers from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan would be - let's face it - downright depressing. Adele Levine does something amazing in that, without hiding the r...

from palmaceae

When I first picked up Run, Don't Walk, I was surprised to see it was a memoir by a physical therapist. I know a lot of physical therapists, who I'm sure are great at their jobs and very valuable, but the work always sounded so very boring and tedious to me, and I wasn't sure why I would want to ...

from pinklady60

An interesting look at a physical therapist stationed at Walter Reed Medical Center for six years and her work with amputees. Most of her patients were victims of the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - - some missing two or three limbs - - but most of them didn't consider themselves victi...

from minacee

This memoir is a: "Will make you laugh! Will make you cry!" (It helps if you say that with the movie trailer narrator voice guy's inflection.) Adele Levine is a physical therapist (PT) at Walter Reed during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Being a PT is a career path Levine stumbled into af...

from cabracrazy18

Won through Library Thing's early reviewers. This book is fantastic! It shares the challenges of the war heros post-combat, showing their struggles in a very real way that few of us will ever see. More than that, this book celebrates the un-sung heros of the medical field, the PTs who help make t...