[lbo-talk] Be All You Can Be

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Jul 23 14:50:15 PDT 2004


DeborahSRogers debburz at yahoo.com, Fri Jul 23 13:52:28 PDT 2004:
>We want these people to be ready to perform medical miracles when
>the time comes, but can they if their practices don't have a range
>of experiences from which to draw? As trauma surgeons have learned,
>experiences from the medics and docs in wartime have crossed over to
>civilian hospital trauma units and vice versa.

Surgeons and medics in the US military, I'd think, have more than enough occasions to do reconstructive surgery on people wounded in combat and war-related accidents, especially now that Washington actually has more than one war on its hands and thousands of US soldiers have been wounded. I don't know how they even make time for facelifts, liposuctions, breast augmentations, etc. on basically healthy persons (most of whom, I suspect, are dependents of US military personnel rather than soldiers themselves), when they have so many badly injured servicemen and women to care for. If the Pentagon wants to have surgeons and medics do more reconstructive surgeries than on wounded US soldiers alone, it can of course offer their services to Iraqis, Afghans, and others who have been injured in the same wars (and aftermaths of many other wars in the past).

Yoshie



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