One hell of a doc. Thanks for the post, and (I can't believe I'm writing this) kudos to Newsweek.

Fr. Gregory J. Lockwood (formerly EM2(SS), USN)
St. Vincent de Paul Parish
Cincinnati, OH

I scooped Newsweek by 33 days. I'll link via trackback to my post, because I've received lots of hits and many comments, great comments, about the doc.

Everyone needs to read this and then tell me why this nutcase is still alive.

Sadr condemns Rumsfeld, turn against his Sunni allies and threaten to kill Shiite women in the UIA.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

Greyhawk,

How did you manage to let wilsonkolb back in?

He's been tossed from Kos Kidz and the Democratic Underground.

Firefox is a CIA conspiracy to monitor your computer...isn't it Wilson?

Soldier's Dad wrote:
Firefox is a CIA conspiracy to monitor your computer...isn't it Wilson?

D'oh! Why not work for the NY Times while you're at it?! ;)

Great story...only one thing I need to nitpick...it is not Isaiah 7:8 but rather Isaiah 6:8 from which that quote comes form. But I wouldn't be suprised that Newsweek wouldn't know anyhting about the bible, and whats actually in it.

Powerful stuff. More people need to know.
The local paper where the doc lives says he's not too thrilled about all the fame "...Had he known what would follow, Dr. Richard Jadick said, he might not have given that first interview..."

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/031406/met_6782053.shtml

Much like combat vets, most docs who have been knee-deep in entrails and eyeballs don't want the publicity, because it brings questions about those experiences.

Those experiences include some painful, painful memories.

Several of the junior residents I trained (back when I was a faculty doc at a military training program) ended up deployed to Iraq. Some of them did hundreds of trauma resuscitations in just a few months time.

They came back different men... and they don't talk about it.

TheNewGuy, I suppose it's a case of, talking about it with people who don't *know* isn't useful, and talking about it with people who *do* know isn't necessary.

In the case of military docs, sharing of those experiences is encouraged. It teaches other docs what to expect, and expands the knowledge base, all good things. Debriefs, AARs, and case presentations are done for lots of reasons, but first and foremost is to disseminate the "lessons learned." One has an obligation to share life-saving medical knowledge, particularly when it's obtained at such a high cost. Sharing (in a clinical sense) is something that physicians learn from medical school onward.

It's sometimes easier said than done.

Effective presentation requires not only public-speaking skill, but a certain professional/clinical distance from those events, such that you can relate them effectively, objectively, and without losing your composure. I've seen 30-year veteran physicians break down and have to stop talking... some experiences affect you no matter who you are.

I see that Mudville is now willy-free ...

... thanks to the Greyhawks for exercising some "quality control", and keeping Mudville a pleasant place for discussion by many voices (as opposed to a ring for rhetorical slugfests between a truth-challenged automoton and a redneck-in-a-blue-state).

Returning to read-only mode ...