“Translation: Medical advances saved some of those. Those that would have otherwise been classified as murders”
You are certainly correct. For example, Stroger Hospital (formerly Cook County Hospital) in Chicago has an ER the military has observed for tips on GSW (gunshot wounds). If they can get you in there alive, you will probably stay alive-although that might not be a desirable outcome.
And best of all, it’s FREE if you have no money/insurance!
Before the GWOT, military medics would do rotations at inner city, Level 1 trauma centers, to get experience in treating gunshot, stabbings and other trauma, usually from car accidents.
The medics from the military bases in Georgia would go to hospitals like Grady, in Atlanta. Perhaps one of the best for trauma and saving a life.
Then the war started. The military has a very large number of doctors that are Reservists. When they get called up, their treatment protocols are changed. Life over Limb. And they can do and try things on a GI that they probably wouldn’t be able to do in a hospital back home.
Well, those Reservists are now back home in that hospital down the road. And they brought back treatment methods and options that weren’t known or accepted before.