Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Van Tilburg
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 56505
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312358881
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780312358884
ASIN: 0312358881
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery.
Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster, which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.
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Moutain Resue Doctor November 14, 2008
Great message
Anyone that has set foot in the outdoors needs to read this book. I find it refreshing today that there are people, like Doc Tilburg and the Crag Rats, that are willing to risk their lives for the bennifit of others without being highly compensated. The book is very enlightening by exposing us to real life situations and it is a book that you will read cover to cover in one sitting. For entertainment and the human tales the book is worth twice the price
Thanks For The Inspiration November 3, 2008
"Mountain Rescue Doctor" is the perfect addition to any outdoor enthusiast's book shelf. The harrowing accounts of rescue in a multitude of environments leaves the reader captivated throughout the story. The mix of adrenaline pumping high angle rescues and true personal accounts of such a lifestyle add depth to this incredible novel.
As a Ski Patroller and aspiring physician, this book was too good to put down. I highly recommend this account of life as a search and rescue doctor to any wilderness junkie or rocking chair adventurist. Van Tilburg truly inspires you to chase your dreams and get outside!
A thrilling page-turner! October 21, 2008
A cannot-put-down book for all including the non-outdoor enthusiasts and/or non-health care providers. Dr. Van Tilburg vividly describes as only a particpant can the different, current scenarios & their outcomes. The reader feels as if we too are on these incredible rescues in one of the most spectacular natural settings in North America: Mount Hood & the Hood River Valley. A book,its valiant heroes & heroines plus unforgettable stories that the reader can never forget.
Very informative October 17, 2008
This book is good for many types of people with a variety of interests. I'm an outdoor enthusiast in medical school, currently applying to emergency medicine programs - so really, this book covered all bases for me. Dr. Van Tilburg took a somewhat unconventional path through his medical training. As someone who is also taking an unconventional route through medical training, it is helpful to read about Dr. Van Tilburg's path and how he found his way to a medical career about which he is passionate and in which he has found great success.
However, don't be tricked into thinking this book is for medical professionals only. In fact, everybody from the casual hiker to the active mountain enthusiast should read this book. It provides great insight into mountain and wilderness safety, and the precautions we should all take before starting our hike up the mountain.
Couldn't put it down! October 16, 2008
As a physician and member of the Montrose Search and Rescue Team in Southern California, it was with great anticipation that I picked up a copy of Dr. Van Tilburg's "Mountain Rescue Doctor." Little did I know that I wouldn't be able to put the book down! His vignettes of exciting and harrowing rescues are undoubtedly great reading. However, it was reading about the "human side" of rescues, the personal feelings, the camaraderie amoung rescuers, and the affect on rescuers and family alike, that really took his stories to a whole new level. On some level, it was just like being a part of a great rescue: excitement, mixed together with some very personal emotional responses. Thanks to Dr. Van Tilburg for putting down in ink what so many of us in the rescue business struggle with regularly.
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