Daily Archives: 8/3/2007
Controversy Over Doc’s Article
| 8/3/2007 | Posted by Patti under Afghanistan |
The July/August edition of Mother Jones, an independent publication, carried a piece by Dr. Kevin Patterson entitled “Talk to Me Like My Father: Frontline Medicine in Afghanistan“. It is a 7,000 word piece about the time he spent serving in the base hospital in Kandahar, a Canadian civilian doctor on contract to the military.
Some of what he wrote is very graphic and a portion of it describes in detail the final moments of Corporal Megeney’s death as the medical staff fought to try to save him. Cpl Megeney was killed by accident when a weapon discharged in his tent. The death is still under investigation by the military. Although not in as much detail there is also some graphic details about the death of Captain Nichola Goddard’s, Canada’s only female soldier killed in combat. Patterson was repeating what another doctor told him about it, he wasn’t present. (more…)
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