Merriam Press Modern History 1. First Edition (March 2013). The Bach Mai Hospital was founded in 1911 and has become the largest, comprehensive general hospital in Vietnam. Currently, Bach Mai Hospital serves as a major teaching hospital for the Hanoi Medical University, assisting in the daily training of hundreds of medical students and interns as well as post graduate students and medical specialists. The Bach Mai Nursing School trains over 100 students annually with specialized programs for head nurses and nursing specialties. Hundreds of research projects are ongoing at the Bach Mai Hospital and result in significant contributions to the medical literature. Each year, the Hospital receives hundreds of foreign delegations who go there for training, for sharing medical knowledge, or to co-operate in the development of research projects. Dr. Bartecchi served in the U.S. Army as a Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War and in addition to caring for wounded troops, he organized medical forays by helicopter to towns throughout the Mekong Delta. During his tour in Vietnam, working so closely with the civilian population, he developed an admiration and respect for the resilient and proud Vietnamese people. In the mid-1990s, Bartecchi became involved with assisting the Bach Mai Hospital improve their facility and providing training for the doctors, nurses and staff there, including exchanges of medical personnel between Bach Mai Hospital and American hospitals, as well as arranging for assistance in the area of medical equipment and supplies, donated by organizations and corporations. This book provides the background to this story. Humanitarian aid programs are a partnership – a knowledgeable, capable donor and an organized, enlightened receiver. Programs maximizing those qualities have a good chance of succeeding, while others will waste the time, talent and treasures of the donor, and further frustrate the hopes and ambitions of the receivers. In this text, Dr. Bartecchi outlines a program that worked and provides suggestions that could help others develop a successful program. Carl E. Bartecchi, M.D., MACP is a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also a Professor (Honorary) at the Hanoi Medical University and has been awarded a Government of Vietnam, Ministry of Health Medal. For the past 16 years, he has been director of the Bach Mai Hospital Project. All royalties from this book will go to the Bach Mai Hospital Project. Contents: History of the Bach Mai Hospital; Prelude to the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Beginning of the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Evolution of the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Vietnamese Trainees to the U.S.; Early Vietnamese Academic Involvement; Early Medical Equipment Needs; Training Vietnamese Health Care Workers in the United States; Bach Mai Hospital Leadership; Learning From the Vietnamese; Bach Mai Hospital Project Faculty Teaching in Vietnam; Bach Mai Hospital Project Nurses to Vietnam; Involvement of Other Hospitals with the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Bach Mai Hospital Project and the Future Pre-Hospital Program; Bach Mai Hospital Project and Educational Materials; Bach Mai Hospital Project: Later Industry Involvement; Bach Mai Hospital Project: Medical Cargo Delivery; Financing the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Lessons Learned From the Bach Mai Hospital Project; Bach Mai Hospital Project and Vietnam; The Bach Mai Hospital Project and Humanitarian Programs. 77 photos.
Merriam Press History. Bach Mai Hospital was founded in 1911 and has become the largest, comprehensive general and teaching hospital in Vietnam. Each year, the hospital receives hundreds of foreign delegations who go there for training, sharing medical knowledge, or to cooperate in development of research. Bartecchi served in the US Army as a Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War and in addition to caring for wounded troops, organized medical forays by helicopter to towns throughout the Mekong Delta. During his tour in Vietnam he developed an admiration and respect for the resilient and proud Vietnamese people. In the mid-90s, he became involved with assisting the hospital improve their facility and providing training for doctors, nurses and staff there, including exchanges of medical personnel between Bach Mai and American hospitals, as assistance in the area of medical equipment and supplies, donated by organizations and corporations. This book provides the background to this story. 77 photos.
Merriam Press History. Bach Mai Hospital was founded in 1911 and has become the largest, comprehensive general and teaching hospital in Vietnam. Each year, the hospital receives hundreds of foreign delegations who go there for training, sharing medical knowledge, or to cooperate in development of research. Bartecchi served in the US Army as a Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War and in addition to caring for wounded troops, organized medical forays by helicopter to towns throughout the Mekong Delta. During his tour in Vietnam he developed an admiration and respect for the resilient and proud Vietnamese people. In the mid-90s, he became involved with assisting the hospital improve their facility and providing training for doctors, nurses and staff there, including exchanges of medical personnel between Bach Mai and American hospitals, as assistance in the area of medical equipment and supplies, donated by organizations and corporations. This book provides the background to this story. 77 photos.
Merriam Press Military Monograph 97. Second Edition (February 2012). It is a well established fact that there is a relationship between how well soldiers are cared for and how well they fight. That fact may explain why the American soldier is the best fighter in the world. Thanks to men and women like Dr. Bartecchi our troops in Vietnam were cared for as in no other war. Your chances of survival were greater if you were wounded on a battlefield in Vietnam than if you were in a crash on an American highway. But that care went beyond the GI. Vietnam may be the only war we ever fought, or perhaps that was ever fought, in which the American soldier added to their heroism a humanitarianism unmatched in the annals of warfare. And the humanitarianism took place during the heat of the battle. He fixed as he fought, he cured and educated and built in the middle of the battle. What other Army has ever done that? Humanitarianism was our victory in Vietnam. The kinds and quality of our humanitarian work in Vietnam is documented in this book. Join Doctor Bartecchi in his remarkable journey through Vietnam from the time of the French, the Japanese, and the French again, through the war up to the present. You will meet some of the truly great heroes and heroines of any war. Leading the humanitarian charge were medical helicopter crews known as Dust Off. Dust Off was born at Soc Trang, where Dr. Bartecchi began his career in military medicine. Dr. Bartecchi writes of the legendary Charles “Mad Man” Kelly who gave his life to save the Dust Off resource; and whose dying words, “When I have your wounded” set a standard for battlefield evacuation unmatched in the annals of war. With their great new steed of combat, Huey, the Dust Off crew rescued some one million souls; men, women, children, friendly as well as hostile. Vietnam was a helicopter war and Dr. Bartecchi takes us through the history of helicopters in Vietnam. We learn that Dust Off was not the first to evacuate patients by helicopter and, to the dismay of some macho pilots, we learn that the first successful helicopter pilot was a woman. Anyone who has ever served in Vietnam knows what a loveable people the Vietnamese are. One senses that Dr. Bartecchi fell in love with them, saw their great need and determined to help. Since the war he has organized monumental medical contributions surely resulting in many lives saved. Those efforts continue to this day and this book will certainly encourage others to do the same. All the curing and caring and healing, which continue to this day, deserve a memorial. In this superb book Doctor Bartecchi chronicles the grounds for such a memorial. Contents: Introduction; The Japanese at Soc Trang; The French War; The French Defeat; Tom Dooley and the Passage to Freedom; Learning, from Philadelphia to Hawaii; Becoming a Flight Surgeon; Soc Trang and the Mekong Delta; The Dust-Off Legends; The Dispensary at Soc Trang; Army Medicine at Soc Trang; Tragedy at Soc Trang; A Complicated Situation; Martha Raye at Soc Trang; Base Mascots; Viet Cong Military Medicine; My Viet Minh Rifle; Soc Trang—The Village; The Orphanage at Soc Trang; Public Health Programs on Base; Finding Mother Bruno; The Soc Trang Clinic; Tet Holiday; Oriental Medical Practices; The Airmobile Clinic; Military Medicine for Vietnamese Civilians; Post-Vietnam Travels; Henry Ford Hospital Years; Recollections of Vietnam; Vietnamese Refugees in Pueblo; The Truths About the Vietnam War; Return to Vietnam; Bach Mai Hospital Project; Training Vietnamese Physicians; Vietnamese Medical Leaders; Foundation Support; The Education of Dr. Hong; Help for Rural Vietnam; Sources of Aid; Southeast Asia Medical Practices; The Poison Control Center; Americans Reaching Out; A Sister Hospital for Bach Mai; A Vietnamese Odyssey; References; 63 photos; 2 illustrations; 5 maps.
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