The
<http://www.amazon.com/War-Surgery-Afghanistan-Iraq-2003-2007/dp/0981822800>New
York Times has reported that the United States Army has issued a
textbook for war surgeons, War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq, that
details the battlefield techniques doctors have developed in response
to the new kinds of trauma wounds they are seeing in the current war.
Paradoxically, the book is being issued as news photographers
complain that they are being ejected from combat areas for depicting
dead and wounded Americans.
But efforts to censor the book were overruled by successive Army
surgeons general. It can be ordered from the Government Printing
Office for $71; Amazon.com lists it as out of stock, but the Borden
Institute, the Army medical office that published it, said thousands
more copies would be printed.
"I'm ashamed to say that there were folks even in the medical
department who said, Over my dead body will American civilians see
this," said Dr. David E. Lounsbury, one of the book's three authors.
Dr. Lounsbury, 58, an internist and retired colonel, took part in the
1991 and 2003 invasions of Iraq and was the editor of military
medicine textbooks at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Amazon link:
<http://www.amazon.com/War-Surgery-Afghanistan-Iraq-2003-2007/dp/0981822800>War
Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq
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