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Life and Death in the War Zone
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Viewing Ideas
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Before Watching
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Ask students to brainstorm the kinds of medical personnel they
think the armed forces employ. What kind of medical support
might be needed during a war? What kinds of medical personnel
might have been deployed to support troops in Iraq? (A CSH
contains many of the same specialists as a stateside hospital,
including internists, nurses, dentists, ophthalmologists,
gynecologists, surgeons, radiologists, and infectious disease
specialists.)
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Organize students into two groups. As they watch, have one group
take notes on the 21st CSH guidelines for treating injured
Iraqis; have the second group take notes on each patient that
came into the CSH and the decisions made regarding the case.
After Watching
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Review students' notes regarding the 21st CSH guidelines for
treating Iraqis and the cases that came up during the program.
What were the guidelines? In each case, what guidelines and
considerations did medical personnel use to make their
decisions? What do students think about each of the decisions
made?
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Ask students to think of other circumstances in which priorities
need to be set for allocation of limited resources
(e.g.,emergency-room triage, food distribution in areas of
famine, medicine allotment in countries experiencing disease
outbreaks). What might some of the guiding principles be for
these situations?
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