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Appearances and Media
Appearances
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Glasser's media tour now. Go to the
booking page.
Previous Personal Appearances
Louisville,
KY
August 7, 2007
10th Annual Force Health Protection conference put on
by the Deployment Health Clinical Center of Walter Reed Army Medical
Center.
Philadelphia,
PA (Tentative)
September 29, 2007
Boise, ID
September 20, 2007
City Club of Boise, Boise
State University, and at the V.A. Hospital
Minneapolis, MN
October 19, 2007
MCDES Conference
Coming Home: Grieving
the Many Wounds of War
North Carolina
(Tentative)
November, January, or
March
Media
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A Shock Wave of Brain Injuries,
Sunday, April 8, 2007, The Washington Post.
Midmorning, Minnesota
Public Radio, Tuesday, August 1
(Listen to the archived show)
Wounded, David Mamet,
Huffington Post, July 27, 2006
"All the Pauls"
The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2006
Minnesota Law &
Politics July 2006
Women at War
Huffington Post, June 27, 2006
Publisher's Weekly
“...details
the breakthroughs in technology, medical procedures and
body armor that have made the Iraq war more survivable
than previous conflicts but notes a depressing side
effect: soldiers now survive horrific wounds that would
have killed them in the past, wounds that will saddle
them with physical and financial burdens for decades to
come...”
Minnesota Monthly
July, 2006
“From the author of 365 Days, one of the most
powerful books of the Vietnam era, a new look at the
medical costs of Iraq."
Looking Back at My Lai
Huffington Post, June 16, 2006
Too
few are carrying the burden of war
Philip Gold, Guest Columnist,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sunday, April 30, 2006
“When the Iraq war started to sour,
Glasser, now a prominent Minneapolis pediatric
nephrologist, noticed that new kinds of wounded were
coming back. Thanks to improved body armor and lack of
enemy artillery and mortars, there were fewer
traditional gunshot and fragmentation wounds. But
because of the wide use of improvised explosive devices
such as suicide bombs, there were far more serious
wounds to limbs and closed head injuries. Gone was the
"Million Dollar Wound" that got you honorably home but
still reasonably intact. Now the military was doing
amputations at a rate unknown since the Civil War and
dealing with head injuries that could only be described
as ‘polytrauma.’”
Taking
Care of Our Veterans: A Debt That Must Be Honored
Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D., and
Robert J. Cihak, M.D., The Medicine Men, Newsmax.com,
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
“…But the wounded coming home today
are different, as a new book by Dr. Ronald J. Glasser
makes clear. All Americans who believe that the human
cost of Iraq can be measured primarily by body bags need
to read ‘Wounded: Vietnam to Iraq.’”
(Also in Orange County Business
Journal and in Jewish World Review) |
Wounded:
Vietnam to Iraq
With over 25,000 American troops and
100,000 Iraqi already injured, Wounded is tragically
relevant. This timely account—a powerful reminder of the physical,
financial, and psychological costs of war—will only grow more
important as soldiers continue to return home.
365 Days
“The
stories I have tried to tell here are true,” says Glasser in his
preface. “Those that happened in Japan I was part of; the rest are
from the boys I met. I would have liked to have disbelieved some of
them, and at first I did, but I was there long enough to hear the
same stories again and again, and then to see part of it myself.”
Assigned
to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan, Glasser arrived there in September
1968 as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, primarily to
care for the children of officers and high-ranking government
officials. But with an average of six to eight thousand wounded per
month, Glasser, along with all other available physicians, was
called on to treat the soldiers. The death and suffering he
witnessed were staggering. The soldiers counted their days by the
length of their tour—one year, or 365 days—and they knew, down to
the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their
stories—their lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of
war—with humane eloquence.
Ronald Glasser
Wounded: Vietnam to Iraq
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Books
Media Experience
The Today
Show, CNN, MPR, PBS, and numerous regional and national radio shows.
Comments
"Ron Glasser
has written a compelling, riveting and truly great book which
America needs now. Superbly researched and heart-rending, it
is a potential Pulitzer Prize Winner. Well done."
--Lt. General
Hal Moore, Co-author of
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young
“Ron Glasser is a great
American writer. All his books are written out of love: his love for
his patients, his love for his profession, his love for the
servicemen he treated during Vietnam, and for their sons in
Afghanistan and Iraq. His love, as with any doctor, any soldier, and
any writer worth anything, is tempered by sadness, which is the
attempt at acceptance of the way things are; here in Wounded,
also by rage, which is to say by the absolute refusal to accept that
suffering and waste which is avoidable. Bravo.”
-- David Mamet
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