I should have known why this story was written or why it caught the eye of a dominent media type. These are the two physicians who operated on Woodruff and Vogt. It’s too bad these two were injured but it’s enough already. Woodruff has now been moved to this exalted status which I clearly do not understand. If I ever saw this kind of treatment for our troops or say like a Kurilla, who Michael Yon wrote about, then I might take this story more seriously.

That said I’m still happy to see a couple of physicians in the Air Force get some publicity time.
Here’s – Maj. Hans Bakken, left, and Maj. Brett Schlifka treat patients in tents connected by a plywood corridor while helicopters land just outside. (By Thomas E. Ricks — The Washington Post)

I found this information interesting:

Working with another Army doctor, Maj. Gerald Grant, Schlifka and Bakken are still learning about blast effects — the unseen damage caused by pressure on the brain, in which some people appear unhurt by a bomb attack only to suffer headaches, disorientation or lapses in short-term memory later on. “We see a lot of guys that are in a Humvee. They get knocked out but they, quote, don’t sustain any serious injuries, unquote,” Bakken said. Then when that soldier gets back to his unit, he doesn’t feel quite right, but his problems are hard to discern except by those who already know him.

A Different Operation For U.S. Doctors in Iraq

Thanks to Mudville Gazette Open Post

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