Sister Mary Centesis
In Small Miracles Remembered
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It is truly a life transforming experience this war, discarding all you are for what you are to become. Some will perish. Others who live through it will never be the same father or husband or professional again. It scares me that the fate of many many - to live or to die - is in my hands. My life, too, is irrevocably changed by this unhealthy artifact of Man's politic.
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Inspired by modern medicine and its sometimes archaic vocabulary, Sister Mary Centesis follows an individual good Samaritan beginning in early Chicago, pausing in tornado-ravaged St. Louis, passing through New Orleans, reaching the front lines of European Trench warfare. Not intended to chronicle war, this story unfolds through the adventures of a single individual exposed to its horrors and called on to administer those who suffer its inevitable consequences. Throughout this tale is an underlying recognition of modern medicine and its retention of sometimes archaic nomenclature and equipment. This is an easy and a fun read that may leave you wondering the next time you visit a hospital.
About the Author
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Nixon brings an individual and humanistic approach to military conflict and the mayhem it generates. Through the eyes of a medical corpsman, he weaves the story of a Good Samaritan into the chaos of trench warfare. He lives and writes from his home in southern California.