Russell sports medicine physician, Dr. Darrell Menard, has released a book detailing his experiences as a doctor with the Canadian Armed Forces in the genocidal war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s.
Menard is well known in the Township of Russell where he has practiced sports medicine for many years, and as a physician for Team Canada in the Olympics and Paralympics, but this book deals only with his time in the former Yugoslavia during its brutal civil war. He started it as a daily diary to keep him busy and relieve some of the intense emotions sparked by being in a conflict zone.
He also told CJRO what makes him grateful to be in Canada–simple things like being able to go for a run without worrying about landmines, and his appreciation for the hardships of a soldier’s deployment.
Diary of a Deployed Doc is available from Amazon.
