Posted on 12/08/2004 10:19:42 PM PST by LibWhacker
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) Doctors with Bravo Surgical Company known as the ''Cheaters of Death'' fight their own quiet battles every day against the horrifying wounds of war.
''These injuries we never see at home,'' said one of the surgeons, Dr. Matthew Camuso of Los Angeles. ''I mostly treated gunshot wounds and stabbing, but these injuries don't compare you just don't have people blown up back home.''
Dr. Michael Mazurek, an orthopedic surgeon and trauma specialist from Philadelphia, said he has seen ''some horrific injuries'' in the 90 days since coming to Iraq. ''The tremendous force of the IED can devastate a torso,'' he says, referring to a roadside bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Inadequate thanks, unpayable debts . . . .
Rats, just found the complete article at a site that doesn't require excerpting!
Yes, it's a disgrace that gov't throws money away hand over fist and yet some of more severely injured of these heroes will, in effect, live in poverty the rest of their lives.
When I went through back in '89 the motto for the course was Was doesn't have winners or losers, only survivors.
Phil Caputo, in his book "A Rumor of War", talked about this.
He coined the term "Traumatic Fragmentation".
He got so sick of sitting behind the line reading the casualty reports of stuff like this, he volunteered for a second tour commanding a combat platoon instead.
BTTT
Thank you!
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