Physician-soldier: a Moral Profession
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Doctors performing brain surgery by flashlight during a blackout necessitated by a Japanese air raid. The austerity of the surroundings is evident in the lack of medical equipment and supplies. Just as the wounded soldier moves along a pathway from injury, to triage, to care, to recovery, military physicians need to travel along their own pathway of understanding themselves as both physician and soldier.
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