Radio
Younger Military Patients Recover Faster
Source: NBN/CP RadioWire
Oct 27, 2003, 14:08

With military operations in Iraq still incurring casualties, doctors treating them are seeing different wounds than they would in civilian life, but they are also treating healthier patients. Doctor Robert Johnstone, the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at West Virginia University and a Reserve Army Colonel, says the recovery of military patients is helped by the fact that they are younger and in better physical shape than the average population:

�Being in condition - good physical condition - is a tremendous help - both physically and mentally.  The will to succeed in this war was very patriotic - patriotically supported - and that was immensely helpful to these soldiers, and they did well.�

Doctor Johnstone treated Iraq war patients this spring at Walter Reed Hospital.