AFTERM*A*S*H

摘要

When the UN's Baghdad offices were car bombed in August 2003, a quick-reacting Air Force medical group was among the first to reach the scene. The gruesome attack claimed the lives of 22 persons, but USAF surgeons and staff saved many others. Such feats have taken place numerous times in violence-wracked Iraq. This was the product of a new type of medical concept called EMEDS, for Expeditionary Medical Support. Unlike the acronym MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), the term EMEDS may not ever make it to the silver screen, but it is becoming as well-known to today's forces as MASH units were to Korean War troops.