On call for war: Work of a consultant reservist with the Defence Medical Services

David Rew

Despite inner city knife crime among feral youths, violent trauma is still rare in the UK. Across the globe, the weapons of war wreck lives and bodies in countless thousands in many failed states Whatever our personal views on the rights and wrongs of expeditionary warfare, our professional responsibilities as UK trained surgeons come into much sharper focus when those lives and bodies belong to young British service personnel in the remote demanding conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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