"Peanut! What are you doing? You are supposed to be in bed!"

Peanut barked at me, "I'm helping feed the little puppies!"

Peanut tries to help feed the puppies. He plays with them while the Purina Puppy Pablum is warming. He has gotten so big and loves to help! The other day when the firemen were here with their big firetruck, Peanut wanted to help!

Peanut is a very good puppy and he tries to help when he can. When he heard about the doctors making the soldiers well over in Iraq, he wanted to help too.

"Peanut, why do you want to help the doctors?"

He smiled (yes, bulldogs CAN smile!) and said, "They call themselves 'Devil Docs'! And Sugar says I'm a Devil Dog!"

Peanut wanted to know more about the 'Devil Docs' and this is what I found:

Devil Docs

Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on CNN.com that the Navy has developed and deployed a forward surgical capability. That's great news, and I look forward to their publications in the future as to their effectiveness, mortality and infection rates. I actually would not hold a modestly increased mortality rate against them, as they're going to get very injured combatants, the most injured of whom might have died on the way to a more remote OR (Operating Room).

According to Dr. Gupta:

In this mobile operating room -- a tent that can be set up or torn down in less than an hour -- it's not unusual for these doctors -- Navy personnel who work for the Marines Corps -- to perform surgery on their enemy. Monday was the first time the Frontline Resuscitative Surgical Suite has been used, and doctors began treating some of the first patients coming from the front line. Dr. Gupta did a creditable job of describing the facility but wasn't given enough room to explain the odd title: Devil Docs?

In WW I, at the battle of Belleau Wood, not only did the USMC distinguish itself in combat, but they won the grudging admiration of their German enemy, who reportedly stated they fought like 'Teufelhunden', or Devil Dogs. The Marines liked the sobriquet and adopted it as a nickname, often greeting each other as such. The Devil Docs is a natural extension, applied to the US Navy medical personnel who proudly serve in the Green Machine.

It's a terrific capability, and I hope it save a lot of lives. I'm rooting for our Devil Docs, the Corpsmen and Physicians alike.
Posted by aroberts at 01:22