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Run, Don't Walk: The Curious And Chaotic Life Of A Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center (2014)

by Adele Levine(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1583335390 (ISBN13: 9781583335390)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Avery

review 1: Fun set of anecdotes about the wacky characters (PTs and patients) the author met during 6 years working at Walter Reed's amputation unit. Fun characters include Elijah ("Son, I am from physical therapy"), Jim (the exotic creature most soldiers would have never otherwise met -- a theater-loving foodie who lives by himself), and Melody (the chipper 60-year-old who floats in the water downstream from a nuclear plant). Fun patient stories include Pigeon (who just wanted to "get smoked" and finally did get a full-body workout from swimming), Cosmo the rebel (who took a bus to see the White House as soon as he was allowed to leave his floor), and the high-ranking official who was walking "like a pirate" until Levine taught him how to "walk pretty" (with the advice that he just ... moreneeded to drag a manhole cover behind him for a week). Interspersed with more sobering stuff like how overwhelmed the PT staff got by amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan and how tense they all were after shootings at another military facility (someone dropped a box down the hall in OT and everyone froze). Worth a reread.
review 2: Adele Levine was a physical Therapist for six years at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center... and she worked with the amputee rehabilitation patients. This is her story, the good, the bad, the crude, and the funny.Why I started it: I fell in love with the cover and after reading the blurb, I couldn't wait to start.Why I finished it: You know those "Faith in humanity" pins that cover pinterest? This is the book version. But it's real life people with their quirks, their language, their pain and their goals. I couldn't put it down.Sensitive Readers beware of language. Soldiers and marines swear. And when they are in pain, they swear even more. less

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