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“Miracles really do happen here. It's not about the tents: It's what we do inside the tents.”
Col. Elisha Powell
“Most surgeons will see and do more here in four months than they will in the rest of their career. A lot of advances in medicine can come out of wars.”
“A lot of our patients are on the edge of life and death. We don't have the time to go through protocols.”
“We have to keep churning.”
“Iraq is 50 yards outside this tent. We've never put highly skilled, sub-specialized surgeons this close to the battlefield.”
“We can do immediate neurosurgical head trauma. If your brain is swelling from bleeding, you don't have a whole lot of time. You cannot wait to go to Germany.”
