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Suicide in the Military
A recent message indicated that 2009 had the highest number of suicides for any given year in the Army. I’d like to know what you think are the causes of this sad reality. Tell me what you think!... Read more here
Medical Training and Aid in Iraq/Afghanistan
US medical troops working throughout Iraq and Afghanistan teach new, more modern skills for health care, as well as providing basic humanitarian aid to the local population.
A medical symposium at Babil Maternity Hospital in Iraq’s Babil province in July highlighted the differences between Iraqi and American nurses, including education, practical skills and critical-thinking skills “The American nurses are here to help the Iraqi nurses by being a role model for the nursing profession,” said Army Capt. Sharon Owen, brigade nurse for Company C, 172nd Support Battalion, a Cincinnati native. “Things have to change in Iraq. By educating and giving the nurses here some of the knowledge we have, we can start empowering the nursing profession.”... Read more here
Medical Mission Sets Tone in Relations w/Latin America
The USNS Comfort will pull back into its home port of Baltimore soon after finishing up Continuing Promise 2009, a four-month humanitarian trip to seven Latin American countries.
During the mission, the Comfort’s physicians, dentists, nurses, optometrists and staff served more than 100,000 patients. Its surgeons conducted more than 1,600 operations aboard the floating surgical ward. More than 135,000 prescriptions were filled.
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