Keeping The Stethoscope, Hanging Up The Uniform!: The Curse of Combat Disability Retirement

Keeping the Stethoscope, Hanging Up the Uniform is not just a memoir it's a frontline testimony of survival, sacrifice, and the silent war far too many veterans fight alone.

Steven Davis, an Army nurse who traded battlefield trauma for the chaos of civilian emergency rooms, pulls back the curtain on two worlds the public rarely sees and even more rarely understands. With gripping clarity, he takes readers into the trauma bay where seconds determine life or death, and then into the unspoken darkness that follows service: the bureaucracy, the stigma, the disability battles, the emotional fallout, and the quiet moments when many veterans wonder if anyone truly hears them.

This is the story of what happens after the uniform comes off... when the medals fade, the crowds disperse, and the war continues inside.

Through candid storytelling, Davis exposes the cracks in the system, the cost of combat-related disability retirement, and the resilience it takes to keep going when your body, your memories, and the very institutions meant to protect you feel like another battlefield.

This book is for every veteran who has felt unseen, every family walking the journey with them, and every reader willing to face the truth behind "thank you for your service." It's a call for compassion, accountability, and transformation for a nation that must do better.

Raw. Unfiltered. Necessary.

This is the story of a soldier, a healer, and a man determined to speak truth where silence once lived.