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The Leonard Lopate Show

Doctors on the Front Lines

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Napoleon’s chief army surgeon once said: "To be a military surgeon, one must scorn fortune, have absolute integrity, and sacrifice oneself completely to the patient." Academy Award-winner Terry Sanders’s new documentary about American military doctors is "Fighting for Life." It opens this Friday at the Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street).

"Fighting for Life" website


Comments

  • [1] eCAHNomics March 05, 2008 - 12:44PM

    How many of the troops whose lives have been saved, but who end up severely impaired, would have wanted to die instead?
  • [2] KCromeyer from Staten Island March 05, 2008 - 12:52PM

    I agree with the fact that these physicians are exquisite in their practice but unfortunately they are aiding the government's exploitation of wounded soldiers. As a result of such amazing care, soldiers are not given the adequate time to heal from an injury rather they are being "stitched up" and sent back out on the front lines of battle instead of being honorably discharged.

    So what does this all mean? Well veteran soldiers are returning with many more injuries to cope with and the VA's practices are not being improved to deal with such tasks.
  • [3] TheHumanExperience March 05, 2008 - 12:56PM

    Sometimes living isn't always what its cracked up to be, if it involves being serverely injured.

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