Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature

A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers bikers rafters and skiers from the wilderness as part of the Hood River Crag Rats the oldest mountain rescue team in the country.Christopher Van Tilburg MD is an emergency room physician ski patrol doctor emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburgs beeper goes off the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker into a blizzard to search for missing skiers or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. . Dr. Van Tilburgs work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine survival skills agility and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor Van Tilburg shares personal stories of harrowing and suspenseful rescues and recoveries including the recent Mount Hood disaster which claimed the lives of three climbers. Mountain Rescue Doctor is an exhilarating tour through the perils of nature and medicine.