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...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...
...Lucky." The savage fate of Dengler's companion was shared by six U.S. Marines wounded in a fierce mor tar barrage near the 17th parallel, where Operation Hastings continued to take a heavy toll of Red dead last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own medical corpsmen, were mercilessly slaughtered by North Vietnamese regulars. "During the night, the North Viets came," said one survivor of the massacre, a radio operator whose abdomen had been ripped by shell fragments. "They took my cigarettes and my watch, but they didn't shoot me. They must have looked...
...Hospital Corpsmen in the Navy, serving with the 3rd Marine Division. We sympathize with students facing the draft [June 3]. But what they do not seem to realize is that we, too, have plans for the future. Some of us plan to get married, to finish our education, to try to live our lives in peace. Some of us have died to keep our nation free, and many more will give their lives in the future. It is not our wish that there be a war in Viet Nam, but there...
Many doctors are talking of training more "paramedical" people who could handle administrative problems, take histories, and even, like Navy corpsmen, give shots and help in operating rooms. Computers are being used more widely to help in diagnosis, and Philco recently developed a "medi-chair" that can read a patient's pulse, check his respiration rate and skin response, and produce an electrocardiogram 20 seconds after he sits down in it. These and other processing techniques can leave the doctor more time to offer what no computer can-judgment and sympathy. As Montefiore's Dr. Cherkasky says...
...charisma, the Peace Corps has had an easy time gobbling up most of the activists in this area. But ACCION has been doing some intensive local recruiting of its own. From its East Coast office at 17 Dunster Street in Cambridge, ACCION especially likes to bird-dog prospective Peace Corpsmen...