Cataloging Wounds of War to Help Heal Them
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/world/asia/catalog-of-wounded-in-afghan-war-could-be-model.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120518
A year after he returned to the states, Colonel Wirt and his database point to the promise and obstacles related to studying more than a decade of American war.
The amassed information on combatants over 10 years amounts to the most detailed data ever assembled on battlefield trauma and its care, American military officers say. But the records are scattered.
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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