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...medic, the wounded soldiers and their comrades began a frantic race against the clock. Buddies pressed their hands into Castro's hip wound to keep him from bleeding to death. The wound was so massive that his tourniquet was useless. He handed it to Wyatt, who needed two to stanch the blood flowing from his femoral artery. Amid the mayhem, Meinen, who had been manning a 50-cal. machine gun, noticed that he didn't have any feeling in his right foot. "It felt like it had gone to sleep on me, so I picked my foot...
...American soldiers in the current Iraq war have a better chance of surviving those wounds and getting back home than any other soldiers in history. Better protection, faster evacuation and improved medical techniques at the edge of combat have dramatically reduced battlefield mortality. At the same time, although body armor and wound-sealing potions have made it less likely that soldiers will be killed in battle, they have also increased the likelihood of certain kinds of injuries, especially amputation, because a soldier's extremities remain vulnerable to the kind of homemade munitions the Iraqis are routinely deploying. The Iraqis lack...
...TREPANNING. Maturin's on-deck medical tour de force--taking the top off a patient's skull to release pressure and inserting a silver coin under the wound--is well depicted...
...clock wound down and the weary defense took the field for the umpteenth time after a Schires interception, resignation took over determination. You could see it in their slumped shoulders and exhausted gait...
...have ample space to prove why they are titans of their craft. Among other things, this is a movie to drink in—it’s one of the saddest, prettiest travelogues you’ll ever see, with Maurice Jarre’s famous balalaika theme wound around it like a sonic ribbon. Brattle Theater...