![]() ![]() Surgery is performed in nine operating rooms. Staff members include general surgeons, plastic surgeon, two neurosurgeons, internists, a radiologist and others. Richard Lawrence Jr., senior medical officer, pointed out that commensurate with growing needs, the hospital was expanded from 60 to 700 beds in two years and that treatment is provided in virtually every medical specialty.Īlthough most patients are military, correspondents, authors and photographers covering the war and occasionally a badly wounded Vietnamese civilian as well as prisoners of war are admitted for treatment.Īmong the enlisted ranks are 75 Marines and Army men on security and liaison assignments. Most of them returned to active duty after being hospitalized less than a week. More than 27,000 patients have been treated at Naval Support Activity Station Hospital since the institution was opened early in 1966. In a nearby recovery ward a nurse in a crisp, white uniform jokes with a hearty-looking patient who will soon be discharged and back on the job. In the receiving ward doctors and hospital corpsmen work feverishly over a victim who lost a foot in a land mine explosion. ![]() Nearby, a critically injured Vietnamese soldier lies uncomprehending, the victim of a severe head injury. ![]()
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