Thursday, June 28, 2012

A Look At The Busiest Trauma Hospital In The World

Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons

Rare Photographs Of Afghan Hospital Published -- The Telegraph

A Cambridge business academic has produced a rarely-seen portrait of the daily battle by surgeons and nurses to save the lives and limbs of British troops wounded in Afghanistan.

Dr Mark de Rond spent six weeks at Camp Bastion observing and photographing the medical teams who must deal with the victims of Taliban ambushes and roadside bombs.

The hospital in Camp Bastion, Helmand, has grown over the past six years to become the busiest trauma hospital in the world. It is renowned for its standard of care and ability to save grievously wounded soldiers.

Dr de Rond, of the Judge Business School, studied how the medical teams bore the burden of treating a succession of horrific wounds and also coped with long periods of boredom.

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