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NOTES OF A SURGEON Volume 351:2471-2475 December 9, 2004 Number 24 Next

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Each Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense provides an online update of American military casualties (the number of wounded or dead) from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.¹ According to this update, as of November 16, 2004, a total of 10,726 service members had suffered war injuries. Of these, 1361 died, 1004 of them killed in action; 5174 were wounded in action and could not return to duty; and 4191 were less severely wounded and returned to duty within 72 hours. No reliable estimates of the number of Iraqis, Afghanis, or American civilians injured are available. Nonetheless, these figures . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health — both in Boston.

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