A Marine Corps Veteran and surgeon shares his passion for teaching with future health professionals to provide the best care for his fellow Veterans.
Dr. Peter M. Rhee served for 24 years, working as a Navy surgeon. He is known for saving many lives at a 2011 shooting in Tucson.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Maggie Brandt, who served in the Army Reserve Medical Corps as a doctor for 21 years.
During Shark Week, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Robert Borrego, a chief surgical officer during Iraqi Freedom who now treats shark bite victims.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Larry Schwab, who served with a Mobile Unit Surgical Transportable during the Vietnam War.
William Least Heat-Moon’s first book was nearing publication when he was struck by appendicitis. Emergency surgery at the VA medical center in Columbia, Mo., likely saved him and Blue Highways.
The award-winning Bay Pines VA Medical Center in St. Petersburg, […]
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