The people in these rural settings are more accustomed to enduring distress and anguish in their daily lives, more so than most of us who live in the comfort of a city environment. Charles Dorr, 101st MDS dentist. In a well-equipped dental clinic there are so many other alternatives that could have saved their teeth. Once you remove it, it's gone, never to return again. At the very least, I felt I was relieving a lot of pain and suffering.
Medical personnel wear two hats.
We have to be mobility qualified first, and medics second. We have a support mission in the military, which is to take care of all our people. We are trained to use the buddy system and we bond closely because of it. In addition to care giving, a deployed pharmacy was augmented by 101st MDS troops. Ensuring each patient properly understood the directions given was the most difficult part.