It has been said “We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and would keep on biting until he got off on his own.” –C.S Crawford, Four deuces: A Korean War Story While some argue that the US involvement with the Korean War was not a good idea, the truth is that there was a lot of reasoning for joining the Korean War because the “exportation” of communism and Korean was in a tense relation from the cold war and the development of stronger medical practice also racial integration and the over change of the United States structure.
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The Korean War made our medical services for both those who are fighting back in the Korean War and those fighting today have a better chance of surviving more fatal injuries. Also there was a huge advance for medical technologies back in the states. One major advance was arterial repairs As Otto F. Apel M.D., Pat Apel argued in MASH: An Army Surgeon “Only a total of approximately 200 arterial repair procedures where done in Korea. Arterial repair was an advance of the Korean War pioneered stateside at Walter Reed” During world War I and World War II prior to the advance of medical practices and prior to the Korean War 25% of all injuries could have been prevented as the advance of the procedures in the Korean War. The surgical procedure of an arterial vain consisted of finding the artery and placing clamps to stop any blood flow and occultation of the vain and use a vein graft and fusing it to the vein. As L Brockliss and C Jones argued in Science Museum in War and Medicine “War has certainly had an impact on medicine. The numbers of injured and diseased soldiers and the need to maintain a strong military force to defend the nation ensured that the medical treatment of the military was prioritized. In times of peace some of these developments have been used to treat the civilian …show more content…
There was a previous atmosphere from the Cold War prior and the United States did not want any more communism spreading into Korea. This influenced the United States to join and fight. As Robert Barns argues in The US, the UN and the Korean War: Communism in the Far East “The United States relations between the Soviet participation and the party on Korea; The US would not tolerate any participation on the behalf of the US public” This is stating that the soviet union is to not join in on the Korean War. This would be wide spread of communism and this was not favorable to the United States. The United States wanted a stop to Soviet Union membership however with the massive tension However Moscow was to prevent the delegation to proceed any further. However at the same time there was a lack of interest from multiple other parties. There was a draft created however unable to fully agree there was not a decision made. As Berger Johnson argues in the article gwr.edu “The first military clash of the Cold War and the first
The first …show more content…
The Korean War made our medical services for both those who are fighting back in the Korean War and those fighting today have a better chance of surviving more fatal injuries. Also there was a huge advance for medical technologies back in the states. One major advance was arterial repairs As Otto F. Apel M.D., Pat Apel argued in MASH: An Army Surgeon “Only a total of approximately 200 arterial repair procedures where done in Korea. Arterial repair was an advance of the Korean War pioneered stateside at Walter Reed” During world War I and World War II prior to the advance of medical practices and prior to the Korean War 25% of all injuries could have been prevented as the advance of the procedures in the Korean War. The surgical procedure of an arterial vain consisted of finding the artery and placing clamps to stop any blood flow and occultation of the vain and use a vein graft and fusing it to the vein. As L Brockliss and C Jones argued in Science Museum in War and Medicine “War has certainly had an impact on medicine. The numbers of injured and diseased soldiers and the need to maintain a strong military force to defend the nation ensured that the medical treatment of the military was prioritized. In times of peace some of these developments have been used to treat the civilian …show more content…
There was a previous atmosphere from the Cold War prior and the United States did not want any more communism spreading into Korea. This influenced the United States to join and fight. As Robert Barns argues in The US, the UN and the Korean War: Communism in the Far East “The United States relations between the Soviet participation and the party on Korea; The US would not tolerate any participation on the behalf of the US public” This is stating that the soviet union is to not join in on the Korean War. This would be wide spread of communism and this was not favorable to the United States. The United States wanted a stop to Soviet Union membership however with the massive tension However Moscow was to prevent the delegation to proceed any further. However at the same time there was a lack of interest from multiple other parties. There was a draft created however unable to fully agree there was not a decision made. As Berger Johnson argues in the article gwr.edu “The first military clash of the Cold War and the first