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<p>By Capt. Mike McCarten, commanding officer of the NATO Role 3<br>Multinational Medical Unit, Kandahar, Afghanistan. McCarten is a U.S. Navy family physician and aerospace medicine specialist.<br><br>"I command the NATO trauma hospital south of Kandahar City, the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU) staffed with 225 men and women from Navy Medicine. To them, the scenes in the hospital trauma bays are familiar: crowds of emergency room doctors and nurses, surgeons and technicians all feverishly attending to a fallen Soldier or Marine. I was caught off guard one day when, rather than our trauma docs running the show, our pediatric intensivist, Capt. Jon Woods, was at the head of the bed. Except for Dr. Woods, the crew was wearing blue operating room gowns and masks, indicating this was a case of infection rather than trauma."<br></p>
<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Live Blog; Afghanistan; military medicine; pediatrics; humanitarian assistance</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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