All Bleeding Stops

What does a doctor do when he thinks his best is not good enough? Matthew Barrett thirty-one years old and fresh out of residency is drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat surgeon in 1967 at the heightof the Vietnam War. Compassionate and sensitive to a fault he is determined to make a difference but quickly finds his idealism crushed by the pain suffering and indifference that surround him. Shamed by his inexperience and tormented by his failures he slowly unravels. Only the love of Therese Hopkins a nurse keeps him from falling apart. But will their love survive the grinding horror of war?. Matthews journey of redemption takes him from combat surgeon in Vietnam to transplant doctor in Ohio and finally to physician in a relief camp in Biafra exploring how the caring and compassion that draws young people to pursue the healing arts can also sow the seeds of their own destruction and how love may be the only thing that can finally make all bleeding stop.