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Denver Health Medical Center, where I used to work, is in fact located in Denver, not Boulder.
Anyway.
I'm a former medic and a veteran of Desert Storm, and I have to say I'm appalled at the effect the Iraq war is having on the military medical system. Although our record the last time around wasn't perfect (witness the repeated denials, lasting to the present day, that there is any such thing as Gulf War Syndrome) I can truthfully say that troops wounded on the battlefield in the last war were always treated promptly and fully for all their injuries. We certainly never tried to convince battle casualties that their symptoms were, so to speak, all in their heads.
I've said for a long time that bad wars make bad armies. This story is further proof.
