Army Trauma Medidine: NY Times

[Roy Danks]

This blog will likely generate a huge response, so clear your inbox out!
 
I'm a huge proponent of Col Holcomb's.   I've met the man and talked to him.  He is the consummate gentleman and a scholar among scholars.
 
What is conspicuously missing from the NY Times article is the fact, undisputable in my mind, that war, as horrible as it is, helps trauma surgery/care make strides of nearly exponential gain.  All wars have done this.  Look in the first chpt of Mattox's book...much is about the advances of trauma surgery as it pertains to war.
 
What Col Holcomb is doing in the war (not alone, of course) is making the necessary adjustments in the midst of very trying and difficult circumstances, with injuries that most of us outside of the armed forces will see only a smattering of in our career.
 
Sounds to me like Dr. Shorr may have an axe to grind.
 
If you've not read Mash, an Army Surgeon in Korea, Otto F. Apel, I strongly recommend it.  His early work on arterial "transplants" is in the book.  Not entirely ethical by today's standards, but certainly was a major advancement.
 
This war is going to take hits from all angles.  I'll leave my 2 cents out.  But I support what the military surgeons, nurses, medics, etc are doing over there 110%.  The NY Times will slant anything they can away from the positive if it advances their agenda.
 
RRD
 
 
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