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...lifted from the battlefield by helicopter to a combat hospital within minutes of being hit. From there they are flown six-and-a-half hours to Landstuhl. "None of us have ever taken care of this large an amount of Americans injured in conflict," says Air Force Colonel Tyler Putnam, one of Landstuhl's trauma surgeons. "This is unlike anything we've ever experienced, or maybe will ever experience again." Few doubt that the evacuation system has saved soldiers' lives. But it was born out of a bitter failure - the Oct. 3, 1993 debacle in Somalia. There, 18 American soldiers...
...military doctors as a quaint backwater, out of touch with both Pentagon politics and the cutting-edge research of combat medicine. Dorlac says it was "a 9-to-3 life," a place where staff took weekend ski trips in the Alps and enjoyed a few sleepy European years. Putnam, the Air Force trauma surgeon, says he dreaded his deployment here in 2002, thinking he had been handed a term in exile. "It felt like a small community hospital when I got here," he says. "They were focused on outpatients. There was very little war-related treatment going...
...every soldier returning from Iraq to consult a psychologist for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Cornum, who previously led the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Bosnia, has also hired several trauma surgeons and critical-care nurses and added operating rooms to the icu. "It's a completely different place now," Putnam says. He ranks Landstuhl as "a world-class trauma center," with top-of-the-line equipment. Landstuhl's eight operating rooms are busy most days, with doctors performing 25 to 30 procedures, including neurosurgery. Physicians set bones and clean out wounds, and carry out a lot of amputations. From within...
Broadway has had its share of nebbishy musical stars, from Seymour Krelboyne in The Little Shop of Horrors to Leo Bloom in The Producers. But it's fair to say that no stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels...
...Shlomo Z. Sternberg, George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics...