Moving stories of patients in a combat hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan as told by Marc Dauphin, a Canadian emergency-room physician that served at the hospital. Dauphin and his team treated people of all kinds and horrific injuries of all types, with a survival rate of 97 percent.

A Few Essential Concepts -- The Arm -- Lessons Learned -- Who Is This Dauphin Guy? -- Mr. Wiggly -- The Day the Australians Came -- Quiet Members of the Team -- What Happens to Our Soldiers After the Role? -- The Bicycle -- FOBs -- The Collector -- Mr. Rice Man -- Head "Injury" -- Darn Pilots -- Can We Try ...? -- Mortuary Affairs -- Incidents -- September -- Cyprus -- Home -- Return to Normal -- PTSD -- Appendix A Chain of Evacuation and Principles of Care -- Appendix B The NATO "9-Liner" -- Appendix C TRAUMA 101: Trauma Care for the Uninitiated -- Appendix D Ramstein.