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...front these days, small mobile surgical teams travel with combat forces. Navy Captain H.R. Bohman, a surgeon, was one of an eight-member medical team that did surgery 8 miles from Baghdad--the closest American operating room to the city--as the Iraqi capital fell to U.S. forces in early April. "We can document at least four Marines who are alive today who would have died if they'd had to be sent back as far as we were sending people back in the first Gulf War," says Bohman, a 30-year Navy veteran...
...nothing or you fought for a liar," he says. "They're telling me I went out there and I got my leg blown off for a liar, and I know that's just not true." Wyatt says he would stay in the Army if he could remain in a combat unit, but he knows that's unlikely. So he's considering college...
...more desperate these killers become." That struck many as an Orwellian way to measure U.S. success. To keep the accent on the positive, the Coalition Provisional Authority, led by proconsul Paul Bremer, is opening a media center in Baghdad similar to the one set up in Qatar during major combat operations. "We have a story to tell," says a senior official. Part of the story last week was a fresh campaign to unearth Saddam Hussein; if it succeeds, officials hope, the resistance will dissipate...
...enemy in Iraq is hidden within the population, so good intelligence is essential to combat the insurgency. Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, last week said the accuracy of information the U.S. was receiving was up over the past few months from 45% to 90%. But that's not Alpha Company's experience. Its intelligence officers say the enemy has become more elusive and shadowy, especially in the dangerous Sunni triangle around Baghdad, where locals are especially reluctant to help the U.S. "Most of the stuff we go out to find turns...
...idea Noffsinger has been championing is rapidly catching on across the country, from rural Tennessee to South Central Los Angeles. The VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Fla., introduced group appointments in the summer of 2002 as a way to combat a backlog of 17,000 patients waiting to be inducted into its primary-care system. Today that waiting list hovers at about 100, and the group model is being extended to Veterans Health Administration centers around the country. Endocrinologist David Shewmon started group appointments in his Wooster, Ohio, practice last January and has reduced the wait time...