[Bar-Face]

I saw this story in my local rag (North Mississippi Daily Journal)this morning. They headlined and edited it to show the story as a negative.
Bias? We don't have no stinking bias here.

[af_vet_rr]

I saw this story in my local rag (North Mississippi Daily Journal)this morning. They headlined and edited it to show the story as a negative.

They must have had to try hard to show it as a negative when you read comments from the doctor(s) who wrote the article or were interviewed in the article for NEJM, and you hear them say things like:

"Within an hour, we drop the tents and set up the OR tables, and we can pretty much start operating immediately," said Peoples, whose photographs are in the medical journal.
or:
"The average time from battlefield to arrival in the United States is now less than four days. In Vietnam, it was 45 days," Gawande writes.

It's hard to twist that as a negative. Dr. Atul Gawande (who wrote the study) had nothing but praise for the military surgeons (he was part of an exchange program at Walter Reed for a while and saw at least the stateside treatment first hand).

Very interesting when you read article at NEJM, Dr. Gawande mentioned that even simple things like ballistic goggles are having a big impact.

His slant is that even though the firepower is more lethal now, troop protection and medical care has advanced even faster.