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Military Health System

Our History

Military medicine has a long and celebrated history. We apply lessons from our past to improve the care of military personnel and their families today and in the future. New surgical techniques, powerful painkillers, antibiotic drugs, and triage and evacuation procedures have revolutionized military medicine.

In this section, you'll find featured stories and information about the history of military medicine.

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Trench mouth

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9/24/2015

Marine Lance Cpl. Sean McDonough, with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, looks into a Humvee mirror as he brushes his teeth on a combat outpost in Farah province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau)

IR team

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9/23/2015

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Connor Potts (left), assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael Siem (right), assigned to the Admiral Joel T. Boone Branch Health Clinic Virginia Beach, Va., take an X-ray of a patient at a medical site established at Killick Coast Guard Station in support of Continuing Promise 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kameren Guy Hodnett)

Woodson DA NANG

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9/23/2015

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, speaks at the Asia Pacific Military Health Exchange (APMHE) in Da Nang, Vietnam. APMHE provided an opportunity to share emerging and recent scientific information and to discuss regional issues and concerns of military health significance. The event included more than 400 participants from 23 nations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (Courtesy photo)

Warning signs of suicide

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9/23/2015

At-risk individuals could have anywhere from five to 20 different warning signs. They could be going through relationship, legal, financial, emotional or other problems and could withdraw from socializing with their fellow service members. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Airman 1st Class Corey Hook)

Pet Therapy

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9/22/2015

Pets, like the dog pictured here, can reduce patient anxiety. Air Force Capt. Kelly Lonergan, from SAMMC’s Inpatient Mental Health Unit, presented findings from her project on the “Use of Pet Therapy in an Inpatient Behavioral Health Setting.” Lonergan’s project was geared to reducing patient anxiety through the use of pet therapy. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Cupp)

Collaborate

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9/22/2015

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brett Lessmann, family medicine resident, examines a patient and eligible beneficiary. The Puget Sound Military Health System is comprised of four military treatment facilities in western Washington - Madigan Army Medical Center, Naval Hospital Bremerton, Naval Hospital Oak Harbor, and the 62nd Medical Squadron clinic at McChord Field - that are responsible for the care of some 280,000 eligible beneficiaries. (U.S. Navy photo)

Alaska help

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9/22/2015

Master Sgt. Kim Groat, 168th Medical Group aerospace medical technician, performs a blood pressure test for a veteran during the Veteran Stand Down at Pioneer Park Civic Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Air Force photo by Senior Airman Francine St. Laurent)

Green Navy

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9/21/2015

Navy corpsmen with Field Medical Training Battalion West apply first aid to a training dummy during a training exercise in Camp Pendleton, Calif. The corpsmen learn to apply first aid in combat and work with Marine units. (U.S. Marine photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Young)

Supplement

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9/21/2015

Service members should be aware of the side effects regarding supplement usage and the negative effects it can lead to in the workplace, including loss of concentration, uneasy heart murmurs, and other potential health problems leading to work-stoppage. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Airman 1st Class Andrew Crawford)

Airmen TCCC

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9/18/2015

Staff Sgt. Derek Ables (left), 21st Security Forces Squadron, establishes an airway on a simulated patient using a nasopharyngeal tool during a pilot course for Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

Joint

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9/18/2015

Army Maj. Angela Diebal, a physical therapist, customizes an orthotic device for her patient.

AFW2

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9/18/2015

Mark Shepherd, Air Force Wounded Warrior wheelchair basketball head coach, gathers wounded warriors for a team hand stack during the Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program Warrior Care event, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., recently.

Chopper medics

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9/17/2015

Sergeant 1st Class Deane Bostick, U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine, Academic Operations NCO in charge, rushes a simulated patient off of a UH-60 Black Hawk during a training exercise meant to test student flight medics' abilities to provide care in an operating aircraft.

MG Moore

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9/17/2015

Physical therapy technician Troy Hopkins assists retired Maj. Gen. William L. Moore Jr. at the Center for the Intrepid, Brooke Army Medical Center’s outpatient rehabilitation facility on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

Research to control blood loss underway for enhanced battlefield care

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9/16/2015

Third-year medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences go through an exercise on the school's campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

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