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(Medical) Advances belie intensity of Iraq war
Al Jazeera ^ | 12/9/2004 | Reuters

Posted on 12/09/2004 6:25:46 AM PST by bedolido

Dramatic advances in battlefield medicine are allowing more soldiers to survive major combat injuries, but are resulting in a lack of appreciation for the ferocity of war.

According to a report in the the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, fundamental changes in treating wounded troops have altered the old calculus for measuring a war's intensity.

Harvard professor Atul Gawande, also a surgeon at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, concludes that it may therefore be misleading to focus only on combat deaths to gauge the level of fighting in Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: advances; iraq; war

1 posted on 12/09/2004 6:25:47 AM PST by bedolido
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To: bedolido

Wait till the robots arrive in the next few months that are designed to fight the terrorists without their being any US troops around.

Coming soon!!!!


2 posted on 12/09/2004 6:30:07 AM PST by stockpirate (Check out my bio and learn about sKerry and his Socialist friends.)
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To: stockpirate
LOL A legion of Johnny 5s!


3 posted on 12/09/2004 7:13:15 AM PST by rudypoot
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To: rudypoot

Check out the real deal, my wife sent he link to me.

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4 posted on 12/09/2004 8:53:38 AM PST by stockpirate (Check out my bio and learn about sKerry and his Socialist friends.)
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