Without a hospitalization capability, battalion medical care is limited to primary care and combat resuscitation. The U.S. Army has traditionally dispatched doctors to battalions. After the Vietnam War, the Army studied this practice critically....
This is a detailed study about the US Army Battalion surgeon. Emphasis is devoted to the reasons the Battalion Surgeon was disestablished in the 1970-1980 timeframe, why the position was reestablished in 1984, and the implications for the future....
The United States Army Medical Department delivers high quality medical care throughout the world, many times to remote and austere environments. A major tenet of this care system is the rapid evacuation of combat casualties to hospitals with...
This study analyzes the planning which occurred and the provisions of the major personnel procurement programs which were established to recruit and retain physicians in the All-Volunteer Army. The investigation is focused on an evaluation of the...
The role of the military surgeon has markedly changed in recent years, including frequent replacement of physicians by Medical Service Corps officers. Definitions of the surgeon's role are examined and definitions of military medicine are analyzed....
The Army Medical Department method of procuring physicians is examined from several aspects: (1) an historical review of physician procurement during the 1940-1973 draft period with an expiration of draft dependent programs; (2) the Army...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-02. Policy gives the Army its skeleton. Its components change to adapt to both stress and inactivity. Flimsy policy weakens Army foundation and...
This document gives insight into the organization of the POW camp system. It discusses prisoner of war labor, food, clothing, medical service and hygiene, Russian treatment of POWs, attitudes of German prisoners of war, propaganda, cultural work,...
Physicians in the armed forces are often faced with a medical ethical dilemma as they perform their duties on a daily basis either in garrison or on the battlefield. The ethical dilemma I will discuss is the battlefield medical ethics "return to...
In this paper you will see both side of my ethical problem. Which is whether or not we should allow retired physicians to volunteer their services and become part of the US Army again? Many of the retirees want to contribute to the war on...
The purposes of this study were to determine whether or not a medical examination of the form and scope prescribed by various regulations is performed on every individual processed for induction or enlistment into the armed forces, and to evaluate...
The core principles of medical ethics date from antiquity and are commonly labeled "beneficence" and "non-malfeasance". The principle of beneficence holds that physicians should aim to "benefit the sick", while non-malfeasance means to "do no harm"...
This directive prescribes uniform procedures and establishes responsibilities during peacetime and contingencies for regulating the transfer of patients from overseas to the continental United States (CONUS); the transfer of patients between...
The study identifies the magnitude of the shortfall of health care personnel to meet the wartime medical requirements of the United States Army. It identifies the total personnel shortfall, critical types of personnel and specific job skills by...
This study attempts to disprove the paradigm that medical supply requires separate management under the control of the Army's medical community. Disproving this paradigm can result in immediate economies for the Army. In an era of shrinking...
In this February 2011 interview LTC Kirk Waibel, Medical Corps, discusses his operational deployment to Iraq with the 230th Infantry. LTC Waibel deployed as part of the Professional Officer Filler System (PROFIS) utilized by the Army Medical...
Over time, the Army's medical community has developed an ethical dilemma through its actions of treating medical symptoms rather than the root causes of those symptoms. The Army has a whole series of regulations that governs medical treatment,...
Cordova, Silvia; Engel, Carl W.; Leeworthy, Jason F.; Leimer, Robert F.; Martell, Osvaldo
Americans are living longer and healthier lives today than in any other period in our country’s history. Since 1980, the life expectancy of the average American has risen from 73.7 to 78.2 years, a notable increase. Americans, on average, live 10...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...