Field medic

Authentic pocket field kit for a Civil War medic.

Here’s how to build a better, cheaper, and more comprehensive medical kit than the ones the stores will sell you.

For every soldier killed during the war, a further two were wounded. A new exhibition at the Science Museum shows the medical devices and innovations that ensured their survival.

The physician assistant (PA) profession began as an effort to simultaneously address two Vietnam War-era problems: 1) highly skilled combat medics returning home without a specific title or skill set readily translatable to a civilian career, and 2) a significant physician shortage during a high-casualty conflict. The PA concept that began in the late 1960s … Read more

"Sin separates us from the presence of God" David Fiorazo, The Cost of Our Silence (image of a WWII medic's bag found on pintrest) Slowly picking my way through David Fiorazo's book The Cost of Our Silence, picking as if I was walking ever so slowly and ever so carefully through a thicket of freshly…

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