Life and Death in the War Zone - Nova

[S-Mart]

Just wanted to know what you all thought about this Nova episode.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/combatdocs/program.html


One other question. They don't teach military physicians IA drills? The physicians on the convoy looked like headless chickens.

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[tulane06]

Just wanted to know what you all thought about this Nova episode.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/combatdocs/program.html


One other question. They don't teach military physicians IA drills? The physicians on the convoy looked like headless chickens.

I watched that program, it was very interesting. I was a little disturbed by the fact they had the doctors and nurses (some of them were colonels) out in the open in the back of the truck the whole trip up. You would think they would at least put them in an APC so they wouldn't be as vulnerable to small arms fire, but maybe there was a rationale for that.

 

[PharmDFisher]

I thought that was very moving. The one about ethical treatment was one that is truly hard to deal with.