Run, Don't Walk : The Curious and Courageous Life Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Paperback)

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...