Episode Number: 101
In Fighting for Life, filmmaker Terry Sanders begins by showing us USU, the Uniformed Services University, that trains doctors, nurses and medics that specialize in disaster and mass casualty situations as well as battlefield duty. The film begins in the educational institution with students working on cadavers and discussing the intensity level of their studies. These studies include a night time mass casualty drill in which fake victims are made up with gory, Hollywood-style wounds and injuries. The film also takes us on a field trip to the battle site of Antietam, the bloodiest U.S. battle. There a Civil War re-enactor explains how surgeons performed 8-10 procedures an hour and found that simply cutting off limbs increased the patient survival rate. One of the nurses explains that Matthew Brady photographed the wounded soldiers and this was the first time the public saw these kinds of images (images that still have the power to jolt viewers).
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