Soldier, Father, Surgeon, Leader
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His father's leg had long since healed by the time the photo was taken. He sits proudly on the steps, a coach surrounded by his players, the 1946 champions of the Southern Christian Athletic Conference basketball league.
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BELGRADE, Maine -- Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- Command Sergeant Major Kurt Pinero looked up from the operating table after laser eye surgery, and made out the pictures on the television screen across the room.
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Medical officials are urging families to talk not just turkey this Thanksgiving but also medical history -- generations of it -- to help
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The high survival rate among the injured at the battle of Waterloo could help inform modern medicine.
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Christopher Reeve will be remembered as a hero to many people, a hero for being a driving force behind spinal cord research and advancing stem cell research and therapeutic cloning .
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.  - If Dr. James Rosser Jr.  had his way, every surgeon in America would have three  indispensable tools on the operating room tray: a scalpel,  sutures, and a video game controller.
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If you are an Army doctor caring for patients, you do your duty, complete your mission.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken....
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A top New York heart surgeon who was doing a mercy-mission operation on an 8-year-old boy in El Salvador had to scrub out in the middle of the procedure so he could donate his own rare-type blood to the patient.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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Plus, new questions are being raised about what role military doctors played in Iraqi prison. The Washington Post reports that the US military&#39;s investigation into the abuse by US military personnel of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, ...
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By MUNEEZA NAQVI NEW DELHI - The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, carried out his orders, and declined to engage in public dissent. The end of his career is one more sign of the politicization of the American military.