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Old 04-16-2008, 16:54   #8
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Originally Posted by Semper gumby View Post
SS,

This may be a formality, but as LPO to a bunch of young corpsmen, do we have permission to grab all info you pass here for teaching purposes? Most of the people that I would be teaching have probably never been deployed, but have the chance of getting selected for deployment. I don't want them to be set up for failure. I am very impressed with the amount/quality of tactical medicine that have been on your posts and would like to pass as much of it on as I can.

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Semper Gumby

Please do...it is practical, applicable and based on solid practices....it is also a nice compliment to be able to have people learn from one's experiences.
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Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.

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