I have no idea if anyone has access to PBS programming and the series NOVA in particular, but this is worthy of your time:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/combatdocs/about.html
It is a story of the CaSH units (formerly MaSH) in Iraq. How they couldn't treat Iraqi civilians unless it was life or death situations, while a CaSH unit in Kuwait, hung around doing nothing.
I watched this late last night. The point that I fell apart was when a mother brought in her daughter, severly malnourished, the doctors were attempting to stabilize her enough to fly her back to the states for medical treatment, the doctor drew blood and ran to the lab to get it analyzed, by the time he came back to the patient a few minutes later, she had died. Her mother was all over this poor girl.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/combatdocs/about.html
It is a story of the CaSH units (formerly MaSH) in Iraq. How they couldn't treat Iraqi civilians unless it was life or death situations, while a CaSH unit in Kuwait, hung around doing nothing.
I watched this late last night. The point that I fell apart was when a mother brought in her daughter, severly malnourished, the doctors were attempting to stabilize her enough to fly her back to the states for medical treatment, the doctor drew blood and ran to the lab to get it analyzed, by the time he came back to the patient a few minutes later, she had died. Her mother was all over this poor girl.