Good Medicine in Bad Places with Col. Ed Horvath

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Medina Library
Medina Community Room A+B

Event Details

Col. Edward Horvath, retired U.S. Army combat physician, is the highest-ranking medical officer to ever divulge his combat physician experiences during the War on Terror. Hear him recount his memoir, Good Medicine, Hard Times: Memoir of a Combat Physician in Iraq, through spoken word and photos. 

Colonel Edward Horvath is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, having served three deployments in Iraq. He has been a physician for more than 45 years. During his last deployment in 2011, Col. Horvath was Task Force Deputy Commander and Chief of Clinical Services for a combat support hospital near Tikrit, Iraq and was responsible for the medical care of over 20,000 U.S. soldiers in the northern half of Iraq. Earlier at the same base, he staffed the emergency room and outpatient clinic, caring for U.S. soldiers, Iraqi civilians and enemy combatants.

Event Type(s): Author Event
Age Group(s): Adult
Presenter: Colonel Edward Horvath
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