Progressive Wednesday

The urologist with the biggest set of…

March 29th, 2007 by Matt

Here’s video of Commander Richard Jadick on The Daily Show talking about his new book On Call In Hell, which details his experience as a marine doctor during the War in Iraq. It’s easy to forget that, among all the other soldiers redefining courage every day, there are doctors saving life after life after life. It takes a different kind of strength, I’d imagine, to heal when surrounded by destruction, to be faced with injuries no med school can prepare you for handling.

One of the major values in medical ethics is “First, do no harm.” These doctors, very literally, undo harm. We owe them, just as we owe our soldiers, more than we can repay them. So check out this video. Learn a bit. Appreciate. Admire. Applaud.

Editor’s note: We’ve been having a wee bit o’ trouble with this video player. Our advice is to click the play button, then pause the sucker. Wait a minute. Think about how much you love us. Then hit play again. You might still have to wait a few seconds. If that doesn’t do the trick, click this sentence to go to the website where the video is hosted. Thank ya. Oh, and the video contains some graphic language and descriptions. Consider yourself “warned.”

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