Military medicine documentaries?

[pointodr]

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Hi all

Can anyone recommend any documentaries that portray military medicine, or just life in the military / on a ship in general? Preferably an accurate portrayal rather than a romanticisation.

Thanks

 

[WernickeDO]

Office Space.

 

[Red Lobster Actual]

the movie M*A*S*H

 

[Homunculus]

or a combination of those two. with a sprinkling of "groundhog day."

a real military documentary would be so boring no one would watch it. even the combat related documentaries (restrepo, inside combat rescue and the like) scour months or years worth of footage for an hour or two of action interesting to a viewer. who wants to watch me doing AHLTA notes or a line unit doing PMCS or inventories?

--your friendly neighborhood forgot his TPS report cover sheet again caveman

 

[pgg]

Combat Hospital was set in the Kandahar Role 3. I haven't seen it. I think it was filmed in Canada and was canceled before the 1st season was done. I got one of their sweatshirts from the Kandahar MWR sale when I was there, though. 🙂

Life & Death In Kandahar might be closer to what you're looking for:


Be advised that the deployed life gets the TV time but time deployed and doing these interesting things is a small fraction of the average military doctor's career. I've spent 12% of my Navy career deployed, and that's not even counting medical school years.

When in the US, military doctors work at hospitals just like every other hospital in the country, except with more paperwork and less efficiency.

 

[pgg]

--your friendly neighborhood forgot his TPS report cover sheet again caveman

Didn't you get the memo?

 

[Homunculus]

Didn't you get the memo?

probably. i get a lot of memos. and memos regarding memos.

real life version-- we have a "cover sheet" that has to be submitted with leave that shows all of our training (or the top priority ones). keep in mind the people processing our leave have the training trackers and are supposed to keep track of this. nothing like doing the SPC job for them while we're doing our own. this has to be signed by our supervisor along with the actual leave form. keep in mind our supervisor has no earthly idea if the training listed on the cover sheet is accurate without having to access the same tracking form that is available to the company.

to top it off, about half the time i call to sign out on leave they don't have the paperwork anyway. naturally.

i've actually adopted the office space philosophy when it comes to mandatory training and random "everyone get this done." i don't get spun up and just wait. eventually they will spoon feed it. some stuff just disappears to maybe come back 6-9 months later. some stuff no one ever follows up on. if it's high profile i get it done but since they normally are only looking for a % completion you can take advantage of the training "herd effect." it's like mandatory commander's calls. as long as a good chunk of people are there, no one is going to come looking for you. but if everyone blows it off, that's when trouble ensues and more memos come out... 😀

--your friendly neighborhood blending into the shadows caveman

 

[pgg]

That leave policy sucks. We just point/click our way through making the request in NSIPS. The only silly part is having to print out the form and give it to our chief scheduler. It goes on our master schedule if we have enough people and that's the end of it.

No cost TAD gets OK'd the same way and then our dept admin assistant (a civilian who's awesome) gets into DTS for us and makes it happen.

Cost TAD is a little harder in that it needs more layers of approval but she takes care of all that too.


I agree with the "be the gray man" philosophy but I have trouble making myself do it ...

 

[deleted480308]

baghdad ER

 

[deuist]

Scrubs, but in camouflage. Maybe it should be called Camos. Instead of a janitor trying to make your life hell, there are dozens of nurses and med techs who have read all of one pamphlet on a particular area now call themselves an expert.

 

[HighPriest]

Scrubs, but in camouflage. Maybe it should be called Camos. Instead of a janitor trying to make your life hell, there are dozens of nurses and med techs who have read all of one pamphlet on a particular area now call themselves an expert.

And many of them are above you in your chain-of-command.

 

[DMBandFan86]

Generation Kill on HBO, not about medicine but pretty accurate how military works.