Navy Medicine

$Trauma lanes being ran by four instructors, each group treating different types of injuries to include an altered mental status, open chest wound, leg amputation, arm fracture, arterial gunshot wounds to the axillary and inguinal regions, and impaled objects to the chest. Teams are doing final preparations and treatments for MEDEVAC turnover. (Photo by Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Loany Saldivar)$

Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: A Sailor’s Perspective

Filed under Fleet and the Fleet Marine Force, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy by vkremer on January 21, 2013 at 7:30 am {no comments}

By Command Master Chief (SW/FMF) Rusty Perry, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command (NMETC) “Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals…” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Shipmates, One of the pioneering minds of this past century penned those [...]

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Navy Surgeon General Video Message: Navy Medicine Priorities

Filed under Leadership, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy by vkremer on January 16, 2013 at 5:25 pm {no comments}

By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Folks, I have talked a lot about priorities over the last several months and have shared with you what I believe is a course charted for the success of Navy Medicine in the future. As we move into [...]

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Navy Medicine Maintains Readiness Despite Flu Season

Filed under Corpsman, Families, Fleet and the Fleet Marine Force, Force health and safety, Heath, Military Medicine, Public Health, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy by vkremer on January 16, 2013 at 12:39 pm {no comments}

By Cmdr. Natalie Wells, public health emergency officer, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery As influenza is nationally on the rise this flu season, our team in Navy Medicine is dedicated to answering the call by maintaining readiness and ensuring an adequate supply of vaccinations at our military treatment facilities for service members and [...]

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Teddy Roosevelt and the Navy’s PRT

Filed under Navy History, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy by vkremer on January 15, 2013 at 7:30 am {no comments}

By Andre Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Today’s U.S. Navy espouses a “culture of fitness,” and “physical readiness,” but this was not always so. In the early 1900s, many including the president himself, Theodore Roosevelt, were appalled by the lack of physical conditioning in the Navy. In his autobiography, Roosevelt wrote, [...]

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Bath Salts: It’s Not a Fad…It’s a Nightmare

Filed under Corpsman, Force health and safety, Heath, Military Medicine, Public Health, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy by vkremer on January 10, 2013 at 7:30 am {no comments}

By Lt. George Loeffler, psychiatry resident, Naval Medical Center San Diego Recently, many of you have seen Navy Medicine’s campaign on the dangers of synthetic amphetamine-like drugs known as bath salts. The video reflects firsthand accounts observed and reported by patients during a case series conducted in late 2011. I have personally seen patients admitted [...]

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