Good Issue of National Geographic
The December 2006 issue of NG has an interesting article about military medicine (featuring info on traumatic brain injury, TBI) and an excellent article on the Ivorybill bird search/controversy.
Plus...naked people? Just kidding. No nakeds.
Plus...naked people? Just kidding. No nakeds.
posted by K at 9:39 AM
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I read a fascinating articular in Rolling Stone about traumatic brain injury in Iraq, and how soldiers are surviving insane wounds that would have been totally fatal in other wars, except that all the Special Ops kinda dudes are basically trained as paramedics and can do all kinds of crazy field-medicine shit that keeps their comrades alive -- so that they then come home needing a level of rehabilitation that not only has never been required before, but is also nowhere NEAR being adequately provided by Bush & Co.
The guy the article was about had like half a skull. When he was recovering, part of his brain was covered only by a layer of grafted skin; it made him so sensitive to changes in air pressure that if someone slammed the door, he would pass out.
I don't know why I started this comment, because you prolly read all this (AND MORE!) in Nat'l Geomomo, except to say: that's fucking fucked up.
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