Word: corpsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injured. During the fight, one black was struggling with a white Marine when the Marine took a bite out of the black's leg. "If a black comes in here with a human bite on his leg, I want to know about it," the Marine told a hospital corpsman later. A black did show up with a leg bite and was immediately arrested...
...hostilities claimed the life of one American: Peace Corps Volunteer Louis Morton, 23, a schoolteacher from Houston, who had been driving with another Peace Corpsman, Robert Freed, along the road between Mbarara and Masaka on a game-spotting tour of nearby Queen Elizabeth National Park. They were unaware of the fighting until they ran into an army roadblock. According to Freed, the troops waved them through and then fired at them. Morton was killed instantly. Freed was taken prisoner but eventually set free...
...increasingly willing to accept paraprofessional assistance. Unlike older physicians, who often refuse to delegate responsibility, younger doctors are eager for all the help they can get. "A corpsman can set a bone or give a shot," says David Campisi, 25, a fourth-year student at U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. "If doctors would lose a part of their enormous ego, they could easily get the help they say they need...
Wasted Years. Smith turned to a previously untapped manpower pool: the medical corpsmen who administer emergency care and assist physicians throughout the military services. "The armed forces spend up to $25,000 for training each corpsman," he explained. "A corpsman may have from 600 to 2,000 hours of formal medical training and up to 20 years of experience. Yet, after his discharge, he can rarely find a related health job in civilian life...
...nothing but praise for Medex Robert Woodruff, a former Army medic who helps him provide medical care at Eastern Washington State College. "He has good rapport with the students, who come back often and ask for him," says Gamon. Patients are equally impressed with the work of ex-Navy Corpsman Ronald Graves, a veteran of Marine combat in Viet Nam, who now works with Dr. Marshall Thompson in Davenport. Says one middle-aged patient: "If he's good enough to take care of our boys on the battlefield, he's good enough...