On Call in Hell - The Story of a US Navy Doctor in Fallujah
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Nice story.
Reminds me (although not nearly as tramatic) of a time during the war CNN medical corrispondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta was reporting when a soldier needed brain surgery. Dr. Sanjay Gupta a brain surgeon went in and saved the man. I guess the US can do just about anything but organ transplants and brain surgery in a combat zone.
In 2003, he traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. One such case was a young marine named Jesus Vidana. Gupta was embedded with a Marine medical unit at the time. Vidana had a severe head injury and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. Vidana survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation.
Reminds me (although not nearly as tramatic) of a time during the war CNN medical corrispondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta was reporting when a soldier needed brain surgery. Dr. Sanjay Gupta a brain surgeon went in and saved the man. I guess the US can do just about anything but organ transplants and brain surgery in a combat zone.
In 2003, he traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. One such case was a young marine named Jesus Vidana. Gupta was embedded with a Marine medical unit at the time. Vidana had a severe head injury and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. Vidana survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation.
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