
Description
The veterans felt helpless to treat this disease first encountered in soldiers during the early 1970s, which peaked globally in the mid-1970s and essentially disappearing by 1975. A talented plastic surgeon, Claire Ferrier, tragically succumbs to the same once dormant illness after returning to the US from Cameroon in 1986. With great effort, dedication, and original thinking the brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans and their group spearhead the discovery of the disease's causation and eliminates its vile occurrence. Corrupt activities of Big Pharma in collusion with an influential US Senator are documented to be at the root of the causation of the disease.
Product Details
Publisher | Bookbaby |
Publish Date | August 18, 2020 |
Pages | 262 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781098311452 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Gus endured twelve months witnessing the devastation of war on the body, mind, and soul on hundreds of very young men. Surgical procedures to save lives were at times mutilating. These experiences are documented in his first book, a memoir, "Welcome Home From Vietnam, Finally." It includes discussions of PTS, Agent Orange, and the disgraceful treatment of returning Veterans by the public, the federal government, and the VA System.
Gus's second duty station was at Fort Carson, Colorado. There he bonded and shared with other medical personnel just home from Vietnam. His PTS improved by dealing with his demons aided by a rock-solid Robin. PTS may be lifelong. To this day, Gus defuses recurrent anger, hopelessness, and guilt by storytelling and lecturing on the etiology and prevention of PTS.
Following discharge on July 28, 1972, he pursued a successful surgical practice in Amsterdam, New York, Exit 27 on the NYS Thruway in the rural Mohawk River Valley.
Gus retired in 2000. He and Robin then began to winter in New York City. During those five months from 2000 to 2015, he facilitated (taught) first-year medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine in basic medical science. He received several Excellence in Teaching awards from WCM. Gus has been a veteran advocate since 1972. He currently lectures on battlefield trauma comparing Vietnam with current hostilities and the etiology and possible prevention of PTS, substance abuse, and suicide in active duty military and veterans. "Welcome Home From Vietnam, Finally" was well received as authentic; describing and illustrating the ugly truth about war. He has also published "One Degree," an historical medical mystery thriller that begins in 1971 Vietnam and concludes with an abdicating presidential candidate in 1988.
Gus enjoys being creative in designing his several web sites, photographically capturing scenes from hiking and deer hunting in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, and travel. For a time he painted in oils from his many photographs of NYC, the landscapes of NY, and Europe. He derives much satisfaction in pursuing innovative approaches in training his young English Setter pointer. Gus is very involved in shotgun sports and bird hunting.
Currently, Gus is sequestered in Amsterdam, NY with his wife, Robin, of 57 years. Their son Chris and daughter Kim enjoy their happy and healthy families.
Earn by promoting books