An end to the occupations and wars so you can come home?
"Brigham gets $3.4m for face transplants; Defense pact aids veterans, civilians" by Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | December 21, 2009
The US military has awarded Brigham and Women’s Hospital a multimillion-dollar contract to pay for face transplants for veterans who have survived catastrophic war injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, but are left severely deformed....
Oh. Disfigured and deformed because of lies!
I'm having a hard time controlling my emotions right now.
The $3.4 million award, which also will be used to provide the surgery to civilians, is a signal that face transplantation could be poised to move into mainstream medicine four years after the first such operation, on a French woman, was met with fierce ethical objections....
Yeah, needed in the mainstream because of the damn wars!!!
Because of improved body armor and trauma care on the battlefield, more injured soldiers are surviving.
Look, for that I AM GRATEFUL; however, MUST WE STAY THERE and CONTINUE to have MORE KILLED and MAIMED SOLDIERS over a LIE?
To remain and EMPIRE?
For resource control?
Because Israel demands it?
Is it worth it, America?
There are nine wounded veterans for every fatality in Iraq and Afghanistan, compared with three wounded for every death in prior conflicts, said Dr. Joseph Rosen, a plastic surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. But with the growing number of wounded veterans have come more severe injuries that the military is struggling to treat.
Many of the veterans with damage to their faces were injured by improvised explosive devices and are recuperating at Walter Reed. Although some have other injuries such as brain damage and missing limbs that limit their ability to work, others return to military jobs, living on or near bases. As is the case with civilians who have lost portions of their faces to burns, disease, or traumatic injury, some of these veterans struggle with going out in public, relationships, and work....
Wouldn't you? Just looking in the mirror must be traumatic.
I'm no looker, in fact, much closer to ugly, but....
The Brigham contract, along with a smaller award given to the University of Pittsburgh for facial reconstruction surgery, is the first money given out under a Defense Department initiative begun earlier this year to quickly move innovative medical procedures into mainstream practice....
Translation: There will be no end to the wars, Americans.
In fact, they are about to get much worse.
The military also is interested in studying and improving the use of immunosuppressant drugs, which patients must take following a transplant to prevent rejection of the donor tissue. Since most veterans are young, they would have to stay on the drugs, and cope with the side effects, for decades....
More UNEXPECTED COSTS of Bush's -- now Obama's -- lies.
Also see: MSM Xmas Gifts: War Profiteers
