MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOCTOR: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature.
by Van Tilburg, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312358873
- ISBN 13
- 9780312358877
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: St Martin's,, (2007). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author is an emergency room physician, a ski patrol doctor, an emergency wilderness physician, and a member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. He "shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers.[and] we confront some of the ethical challenges a wilderness physician faces in making tough choices about who can be saved and at what cost." Illustrated with color photographs. x, 293 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87029
- Title
- MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOCTOR: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature.
- Author
- Van Tilburg, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312358873
- ISBN 13
- 9780312358877
- Publisher
- St Martin's,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2007)
- Keywords
- medicine, mount hood, oregon,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering and climbing;
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