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Volume 357:2723-2727 December 27, 2007 Number 26
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Military–Civilian Collaboration in Trauma Care and the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program
Ernest E. Moore, M.D., M. Margaret Knudson, M.D., C. William Schwab, M.D., Donald D. Trunkey, M.D., Jay A. Johannigman, M.D., and John B. Holcomb, M.D.

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On June 14, 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a three-part report on the future of emergency care, underscoring the evolving crisis in access to urgent medical care in the United States.1 The clear threat of future terrorist activity and recent experience with natural disasters highlight the need to develop a comprehensive response system based on the integration of civilian and military resources.2,3,4,5 Collaboration between civilian and military surgeons during times of war is evident throughout our history, and civilian surgeons have provided surgical care to the wounded since the Revolutionary War. Many observations during times of intense conflict translated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Participation of the Senior Visiting Surgeons

Integrating Civilian and Military Resources for Disaster Response


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From the Departments of Surgery at the Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver (E.E.M.); the San Francisco General Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco (M.M.K.); the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (C.W.S.); the Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland (D.D.T.); the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (J.A.J.); and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX (J.B.H.).



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