<div>Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. <i>FOB Doc</i> is the story of one Canadian doctor who spent nearly his entire tour in combat. Captain Ray Wiss was stationed at Forward Operating Bases  FOBs  in Khandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and the most intense zone combat in Afghanistan. He shares the 'terror and boredom' of the front-line soldier's life in this candid personal diary. One day, he might be participating in combat operations, treating severe and bloody injuries and coping with the deaths of fellow soldiers, both Afghans and NATO allies; another day, he might be writing about the challenges of going to the latrine in sub-zero weather. <i>FOB Doc</i> is heartbreaking and hilarious, often on the same page.</div>

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Dr. Ray Wiss is recognized across Canada and internationally as the man who introduced ultrasound into Canadian emergency medical practice. His teachings have reached several thousand Canadian emergency physicians and this has transformed the way emergency medicine is practiced in our country. He has been described as being the most influential emergency physician in Canada in the past decade.

Dr. Wiss, who grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, followed a rather eclectic path to medicine, which included stints as an Infantry Officer in the Canadian Forces, Director of Recreation in a maximum security institution, and paramedic in a third-world war zone. Somehow, he managed to make this sound like a coherent career path to the interviewers at McMaster Medical School and to the Emergency Medicine Specialization program at McGill University.

Because of his prior military background, Dr. Wiss followed the deployment of Canadian troops in Afghanistan very closely. The more he

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