Resumen:
Mountain Rescue Doctor. Christopher Van Tilburg, M.D., is an emergency room physician, a ski patrol doctor, an emergency wilderness physician, and a member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, scaling a rocky ledge to intubate a hiker who has fallen over a cliff, racing into blizzard to search for missing skiers, or heading to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg shares exclusive firsthand accounts of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries, including the recent Mount Hood disaster. |
