In this article a snapshot of casualty presentations to the UK Role 3 hospital in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, will be briefly described. The observations allow reflection on the advances and strength of clinical provision at the time of the incident, written from a medical command perspective.

Captain and Quartermaster, R.A.M.C.(T.) ; Steward, Southmead Hospital. Thomas Jones began his career with the Guardians of the Parish of Lambeth in 1896, and was subsequently Master of Alresford Workhouse, Hants., from 1903 to 1905. Then, coming to Bristol, he was successively Storekeeper and Master's Clerk at Eastville Institution until he was promoted to be Steward at Southmead Infirmary in S...

at Head-Quarters. Gentlemen, I have already notified to you the appointments to which you have been nominated by the Hon'ble the GovernorGeneral and Council in pursuance of a new arrangement made by the Hon'ble Court of Directors for the reform of their Medical Departments and for the conduct of their military hospitals. This arrangement has been prescribed in a separate General letter from the...

Shortly after war broke out in 1914 Dr Flora Murray and Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, two former members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, founded their own women’s hospital organization to care for soldiers wounded in the fighting. Experience in the suffrage movement had taught them what the likely reaction of the authorities would be to any offer of help from women doctors, so they app...

The incidence of post-operative wound infections in Belize in 1986 and 1987 was studied. Both military practice in the military hospital and civilian practice in the rural hospitals of the local towns were included. Despite previous misgivings and sub-optimal conditions in the rural hospitals an acceptably low incidence was found in both areas of work.

A military surgeon is a physician who works in a standard clinical field, but who also has to learn to adapt his skills to exceptional circumstances and must cope with special challenges due to his deployment in crisis regions, a fact that is one of the major factors influencing military medical strategy planning. The only certainty is that these special circumstances differ fundamentally from ...

here, to the status of medical practitioners they were granted at the time. Sceptical of the claim of doctors to a superior skill, Jones presents the conflict as one of power and gender, rather than as a clash between science and superstition Beside filling a wide gap in our knowledge of the historical reality of hospitals, the book is a major contribution to the reassessment of prevailing assu...