Kamis, 22 Maret 2018

Father of Emergency Medicine

Jonathan Letterman’s Civil War innovations revolutionized military and civilian trauma care. In July 1861, after the First Battle of Bull Run, with about 5,000 soldiers dead or wounded, it took almost a week to remove Union and Confederate casualties from the field. In July 1863, after Gettysburg, virtually all of the 14,000 wounded Union soldiers …

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