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Show 'It A IS E FROM A GENERAL Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, commander of ground troops in the United States, wounded while visiting the African front, had the following to say of American doctors doc-tors in that scene of action: "The medical service was .superb. I know at firsthand the speed and efficiency with which they worked. I was wounded at 2:30 in the afternoon. after-noon. Within ten minutes they had me at a battalion aid station. There two medical officers put a tourniquet on my shoulder to stop the bleeding, bandaged me, fixed me up so. I could be taken to the rear. I went from there in a jeep to the division clearing station, where they gave me blood plasma and checked my dressing. They put me on a litter in an ambulance and started me farther to the rear. At r ::',(), only three- hours later, I was in a field hospital, had been treated twice, had had X-rays taken, and was ready to be operated on. That evening I came to in a warm bed, with no after effects from the operation. ... I didn't get this sort of treatment because I was a general officer. Buck privates were (vetting the same care." The medical men who attended General McNair in Africa were merely civilian doctors not many months ago following routine medical practices at home. The service which they are now rendering to the troops general and private alike they were then rendering to civilians. On the military front, as on the home front, these medical men know only one kind of service the best possible. That is the tradition in which they have been trained. |