In only 6 months we became very close. We had specialists for everything, including general medicine. One very talented guy was in charge of emergency medicine and triage. I d never seen this kind of trauma before. I think so.
Physicians are in a really demanding atmosphere at times.
Being close to the action gave you a tingle all the time. The best came out of people. Older doctors tolerated younger doctors and younger doctors tolerated older ones. Usually the men going into the military as doctors have a scholarship, they do their time and are usually in their twenties, thirties, and forties. After Vietnam there was a lull when fewer and fewer people were going into military medicine.