This "Mash" book, by Portsmouth Ohio Dr. Otto Apel, is on Amazon. Sarah Rapp has been reading it. I want to read a copy!
SamKat
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea
on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland,
Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief
surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the
front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed
80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his
boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days
than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the
lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her
beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic.
Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed "Bedcheck Charlie,"
who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story
later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the
tent surrounding the women's shower was "accidentally" blown off by a
passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the
operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while
revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH
units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the
front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical
staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and
blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH
doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little
patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir,
Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.
Sarah Rapp wrote:
| Sarah Rapp |
| 9:26 AM (22 hours ago)
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am reading Mash by Ottie Appel..have you read it??
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| Sam Kegley |
| 9:32 AM (22 hours ago)
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No, Sarah. I would enjoy the doctor's book I am sure. Has he passed on?
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So sad!! he was to accept an award for the book, and walking across
the stage he collapsed and died on the way to the hospital
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