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in Memory of Vlada Chernykh
Vlada was one of my first military POCUS students in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Without doubt, her memory has inspired many of my Ukrainian teaching endeavors and international instruction on wartime medicine. Hence I am both honored and immensely humbled to make this announcement today, on Vlada’s heavenly birthday.
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Context is key
Today marks 1260 days of full-scale war in Ukraine… For comparison, it took 2194 days before guns fell silent in World War II (WWII), but let’s not forget that back in 2022 bloody russians planned on taking Kyiv in a “3-day special operation”… Context is key! Everything we do in medicine is always placed in…
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3 wishes for the goldfish of collaboration
Advances in military medicine are usually made during wartime, often paid for in blood of the wounded or even their ultimate sacrifice. Each conflict leaves its own footprint in our medical space, and the ongoing war in Ukraine has already led to critical changes in combat casualty care. With no NATO boots on the ground,…
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Readying medical for the wartime response
Wartime medicine NATO-wide has long been associated with the military medical personnel. Yet the war in Ukraine has shown that delivery of medical care during a full-scale armed conflict necessitates a totally different approach. It requires an orchestrated effort among the civilian and military medical communities, going as far as requiring that our knowledge and understanding…
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Well-grounded in reality is UNDERground…
As the next war continues to encroach towards the Eastern NATO border, it is necessary that we, as medical community, discuss a number of complex topics. Both patient care, and your own life will likely depend on being well-grounded in the reality of wartime medicine, so let’s start with “where”…
