Genera General Order # 29 Analysis

Dr. Oscar Reiss’s, M.D., Medicine and the American Revolution is a complete history of revolutionary medical practices, medical leadership, and common diseases that plagued the army. Additionally, Reiss included medical evaluations on the leaders of each side, to give the reader further insight into the medical side of war. With nine times as many people dying from disease than from fighting, medicine played a key role in the American Revolution Reiss, a World War II veteran, is familiar with the tactical side of warfare. However, in his writing, Reiss examines war from a physician’s perspective, looking at how diseases and medicine impacted the war.

John Teevens was employed first at the Ontario Agricultural College, later joining the staff of the Homewood Sanitarium. By the time the last war started [The Great War], he had become supervisor of attendants. (4) • “ Enlisting with the Army Service Corps in 1916, he went overseas the next year. Returning to Canada in 1919, he rejoined the Homewood Staff, leaving to accept a responsible position with the Ontario Hospital in Orillia.

The role nurses played during the Civil War was truly an extensive one, as the war carried the most casualties in American history and so many more injuries. Despite their invaluable work, though, their experiences have not been related in depth. Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes by Joseph Brumgardt is a much-desired addition to the primary collection depicting the story of the United States medical corps during the Civil War. The book’s thesis claims that these men and women who served in the medical end of the conflict deserve attention as full participants in the war rather than as mere helpers of the main actors, more interesting than substantial. As evidence of this, the book focuses on the story of Hannah Ropes, who

The conditions of the field hospitals were awful. March described the hospitals as smelling like latrine trenches. Men were cramped together in rooms and there were not even enough beds or blankets for all of them. A surgeon would go from man to man seeing if he could do anything to help and if he felt he could not he would go to the next man. The battlefield was extremely brutal, and the hospitals that wounded soldiers were taken to was not much better than the conditions on the

In 2014 over 40 soldiers have been killed or severely injured in overseas conflicts, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Some died due to lack of medical care being in close proximity to the soldiers, even though the number of casualties is low it can be reduced even further. At the moment soldiers ,in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, are at the mercy of military's budget and allocation of funds. But, now that the USNS Mercy is returning from southwest Asia it can hopefully resupplied and redeployed into the areas that need them most not just in the middle east. As you can guess, my real life example of mercy is naval hospital ship the USNS Mercy returning from service in southwest Asia.

In order to make sure the VA is providing the best care to veterans and their families the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a performance and accountability report (PAR). PAR provides results on VA’s progress towards providing America’s Veterans with the best in benefits and health care. The goal of this report is to show how well the VA has done in providing care as well as forward-thinking strategies that are used in order to achieve and maintain excellence. Another plan that is in place to provide the best care is the VA FY 2014-2020 Strategic Plan. This plan uses past successful programs to promote further improvements in quality, customer service, preparedness, and management systems.

A group of injured soldiers will be coming in soon, we need your help!” The sound of my name snapped me back into reality as I began gathering the necessary supplies to treat the wounded. The tent was already packed with injured men and I tried to calculate if any more would fit. When I worked, I would often ask my patients to tell me stories of the field as I tended to their injuries. It helped to keep their minds off the pain.

The veteran is somewhat familiar with the health care system. He graduated high school and pursued higher education at a community college for welding. He has been hospitalized quite a

During the war, many soldiers encountered gunshot wounds and facial damages which at times made the casualties lose crucial body parts. Led by surgeon Harold Gillies, medical practitioners

The solutions offered by the Department of Veterans as of today some of them are working others need some improvement. For example, they have 30 openings in which 20 of them are a combination of nurses and specialty doctors. The partnerships between VA and the public sector increase access to care and better serve veterans, but red tape slow the process. The Minute Clinic in which veterans can be served the same day using the Veterans Choice Program to treat minor illnesses and injuries, is a quick solution to the problem.

During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress of 1776 encouraged enlistments by authorizing pensions for soldiers who were disabled. Later, individual states and even communities provided medical and hospital care to veterans. There is an increased need for extensive medical and disability benefits for veterans as medical technology is better able to save the lives of the soldiers. The increase in women veterans is also an issue at hand because

Pompeii’s daily life was similar to our daily life. Pompeii’s medical system was different, but similar to our medical system. Our medical systems are similar because of the high-level First-Aid and sewing the injured. We are different because they had “Dr. Moms”.

Battalion Aid Station NCOIC while assigned to 11th Field Artillery Regiment, I was responsible for the Aid Station Class VIII supplies to include 3 Front Line Ambulances (FLA). I was responsible for inspecting the equipment’s for functionality, perform Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS) and coordinates periodic schedule and unscheduled maintenance. As the NCOIC of General Internal Medicine while assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, I was responsible for the accountability and maintenance of over $850,000 worth of medical

Soldiers train rigorously, preparing for the departure of war. They sacrifice all that they have to fight for their country. As they return after the war, they are left with painful experiences and traumatizing memories, suffering from their inevitable conditions. However, the spouse, families and children back at home are suffering even more than soldiers.

The history of medical evacuation often shortened to medavac has been saving lives since 1870. Medical evacuation is defined as the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield or other locations to a medical treatment facility. They learned how valuable this evacuation was compared to ground transporting a patient from the battlefield to receive medical attention but still there were a lot of flaws with it as well. The time it took to get to the patient and back still was not good enough to save patients that would have been saved today. The World’s military evolve as time goes on just like the evolution of the medical evacuation.