Modern Marvels

Season 6, Episode 24

Episode Title: Battlefield Medicine

Air Date: 1999-05-25

Overview:

“He who would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it,” Hippocrates counseled nearly 2,500 years ago. In this history of medicine under fire, we see how a small army of medics, nurses, surgeons, stretcher-bearers, and ambulance drivers, races to keep pace with the deadly advances of war.