Monday, May 01, 2006
The Lifeline - Digital Journalist photo essay
[Background] We began to tell the story of the wounded at the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Once Saddam Hussein's personal hospital, it's now completely run by U.S. military medical personnel. At times it's packed with doctors and nurses rushing around tending to the incoming wounded. At other times you could not find a soul in the emergency room with the exception of someone manning the entry desk. The ER could go from zero to full speed in a matter of minutes when a call for incoming wounded came over the radio. It was an amazing thing to watch.
After several days in Baghdad we caught a flight to Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, ...Balad is the last stop for wounded U.S. patients before they continue on to a hospital in Germany and then on to the United States for recovery.
Balad had more turnover as it was a collection point for all of the wounded around Iraq. Almost every night a huge transport plane would ferry the injured on to Germany. It was a process that was so organized because, sadly, it was so routine.
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Over the next few months we met with the same injured soldiers and Marines we saw in Iraq, but this time it was here in the States where we saw them begin to recover. They all looked so different than when I first saw them, bloody and battered. ...
[Background] We began to tell the story of the wounded at the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Once Saddam Hussein's personal hospital, it's now completely run by U.S. military medical personnel. At times it's packed with doctors and nurses rushing around tending to the incoming wounded. At other times you could not find a soul in the emergency room with the exception of someone manning the entry desk. The ER could go from zero to full speed in a matter of minutes when a call for incoming wounded came over the radio. It was an amazing thing to watch.
After several days in Baghdad we caught a flight to Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, ...Balad is the last stop for wounded U.S. patients before they continue on to a hospital in Germany and then on to the United States for recovery.
Balad had more turnover as it was a collection point for all of the wounded around Iraq. Almost every night a huge transport plane would ferry the injured on to Germany. It was a process that was so organized because, sadly, it was so routine.
...
Over the next few months we met with the same injured soldiers and Marines we saw in Iraq, but this time it was here in the States where we saw them begin to recover. They all looked so different than when I first saw them, bloody and battered. ...
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