The funniest thing I’ve seen today, in that not funny way
The Navy sends doctors to a Chicago and LA hospitals to prepare them for treating gun wounds:
Because the Navy doesn’t have any trauma training facilities in the U.S., military medical teams can’t get experience dealing with penetrating wounds, inserting IVs in emergencies and other techniques common to combat areas, said Bernard, a 37-year-old lieutenant commander who has been deployed to Afghanistan. He’s a trauma surgeon at the Lovell Federal Heath Care Center in North Chicago, where the Navy teams work when they aren’t at Stroger.
Launched this past spring, the program is one of two of its kind in the country. The other is at the Los Angeles County-University of South California Medical Center.
Navy doctors, nurses and medical corpsmen rotate through Stroger because its trauma unit is one of the busiest in the U.S., a result of the nearly constant gun violence in some troubled neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West sides.
They should ban guns there or something.
September 12th, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Air Force PJs and Army SF medics have been doing Trama-ER rotations for years, both during the the Special Operations Combat Medic Course as well as after for refresher training. They generally rotate through the hospitals in the more violent of inner cities. Hospitals on Indian reservations as well.
September 12th, 2014 at 10:57 pm
That’s a classic example of turning a load of lemons into a modicum of lemonade.
Very convenient of the governments of Chicago and LA to pursue public policy consistently for such a long period of time that we might have these training environments for our military medical staff.
Just think, if they would adopt some more effective public policies that actually addressed the violence problem in their cities, that than picking at the feel-good, photo-op periphery of the issue, they’d be undermining military effectiveness.
September 12th, 2014 at 10:59 pm
“that than” => “rather than”
Dammit, you always seen your egregious grammar problem one second after hitting the Submit button on an un-editable post.
September 13th, 2014 at 12:30 am
The NAVY has no trauma training facilities? Good Lord, are they unaware of the nature of their line of work? Those vessels aren’t bombproof. Or missleproof. Some parts aren’t even bulletproof.
September 13th, 2014 at 8:08 am
I guess all those gang members shooting each other are just proud patriots helping to train the SEALs for deployment.
September 13th, 2014 at 1:09 pm
beaumont – for good training, you need live patients. LA and Chicago have lots, so unless you’re going to shoot pigs for practice, you need to go where the resources are.
September 13th, 2014 at 2:13 pm
I guess all those gang members shooting each other are just proud patriots helping to train the SEALs for deployment.
They’re even kind enough to include collaterally damaged babies and geriatrics in the mix.
God bless ’em for having such forward thinking and patriotism.
September 13th, 2014 at 8:34 pm
My wife was helped by Special Forces Medic doing trauma training at the MCV medical center in Richmond when she was at the ER for a broken nose. The docs had left her to wait, sitting in a chair in a hallway. After a few hours, I grabbed this guy walking by to find out what was going on. He saw my Navy cap, said, “I’ll take care of it” and found out what was going on. He came back, examined her, found the doctor, came back with the doc and got her released. Basically, the doctors had forgotten about her. Without him, I think that we would STILL be sitting there.
September 14th, 2014 at 7:30 am
Yeah, my idea of “national healthcare” would be a vast corps of reserve medics, so many that you couldn’t be in a crowd without having one around. Then no matter what happened to you, you could just yell “Medic!” like they do in the movies (Sorry, “Corpsman!”)
A few hundred thousand SAWmen and Seabees wouldn’t hurt a damn thing, either.
Who says war isn’t healthy for children and other living things? It’s all in the command structure.
September 14th, 2014 at 10:36 am
Actually this has been going on since the 1980s… Navy hospitals get very few gunshot victims, so the Docs and others do rotations in ‘trauma centers’ for skills practice and to help out.
September 14th, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Comatus…
You know..that sounds like a great idea! Almost…as if….. the nation would be better off if there was some organized…. trained…..and armed…group of citizenry available. One that would train much of the citizenry in first responder needs….
What would that be called again….?
September 15th, 2014 at 1:34 pm
God bless ‘em for having such forward thinking and patriotism.
Mr. Biden, you seem to be off of your meds again. Could you step this way…