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Inside The Operation Room Summary

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DAVID WYNTER, a doctor in his early fifties, enters a convent where the Nuns welcome him. Then, SISTER MARIE MICHELLE escorts David to a grave. She also hands him a picture of him with a young woman and three year old girl. After seeing the picture, he reminisces about his old times during 1964 in Michingan. 25-years-old David works in a hospital as an intern. David has his future life planned: finish internship, three years general surgery, two years cardiac surgery, Chief Resident, and Professor of Surgery. It’s his plan, and there should be no detours and no distractions. But then he gets drafted to Vietnam. At his first night,there is an attack so he runs to the hospital to start working. Inside the Operation Room, there are 4 medics: …show more content…

RICHIE gives David a tour around their base camp. David investigates that TUAN, one of the prisoners, is also a medic after seeing a small red cross sewn onto his sleeve. David wants to talk with Tuan but SGT. PAIGE …show more content…

They witness a cruel battle scene in a jungle. They also see a group of wounded and helps them aboard the helicopter. “DEATH WISH” O’CONNELL, a news photographer, fakes an injury and also gets on the helicopter. He watches David with no emotional reaction to the carnage and imperviously dealing with the patients. While David checks on wounded patients in their beds, Sgt. Paige comes with prisoner Tuan. Tuan tells David that he was trained from the best and largest hospital in Hanoi for two years. David gives Tuan a textbook for him to look at while he’s waiting to be transferred. They trade little smiles. Next day, Chaplain John takes David and Death Wish to the Orphanage in Soc Trang. In the Orphanage, David meets SISTER MICHELLE, a French woman in her early thirties, and they feel an immediate chemistry between them. They greet each other and head into the rooms where the children stays. There are a hundred children under three years of age, cramped into a several cribs, all suffering from skin disorders, bacterial pneumonia, and other infections. David knows that the nuns desperately want his help, but he politely rejects since he’s a flight surgeon, and he already have great

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