ENGLE : Medic (fülszöveg)
Few men display more quiet heroism in America's armed services than the medics—the Army's and the Air Force's medical technicians, the Navy's hospital corpsmen. Of the seven Congressional Medals of Honor awarded the Navy men in the Korean war, five went to non-combatant hospital corpsmen, and medics in general earn far more than their numerical proportion of medals. Their mortality is frequently higher than that of combatants.
To these men, many owe their lives. In earlier wars, when there were no enlisted medical aides or nurses and the entire burden of care fell on a pitifully few doctors, more men always died of disease than in battle. In the Union Army in the Civil War, the ratio exceeded two to one, even though a corps of medical technicians was at last established in 1862. World War I was the first in history in which deaths from disease were brought below the level of battle deaths. In World War II, deaths from disease were cut to one-twentieth the level of World War I. As for wounds, today more than 99 percent of wounded men recover.
Eloise Engle tells here the achievements of America's medics, past and present. The account is made all the more moving because so much is based on her personal interviews with hundreds of medical enlisted men.
The manuscript has been reviewed and cleared by the Surgeon General's office of the Army and the corresponding offices of the Navy and the Air Force.
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