Ambulances could patrol the battle lines, delivering the wounded to fixed hospitals. In World War I, the mostly static nature of trench warfare saw little need for mobility in medical treatment. The real history of military medicine tracks the history of military technology. The year was 1950, the place North Korea, and the hospital was the 8076 th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or “MASH.” While many people are familiar with MASH units from the exploits of the fictional 4077 th in the novel, movie, and television series, M*A*S*H, few know anything about their background or their actual wartime service. By the end of the day, the entire hospital-doctors, nurses, patients, equipment-would be gone. The doctors were scrubbing for surgery, nurses were moving patients among the wards, X-ray technicians were developing radiographs, and the pharmacy was dispensing prescriptions. Otherwise, it was business as usual in the sixty-bed facility. November 22 was an unusually cold day at the American hospital in Kumchon County. The 8076th: a hospital with marching orders February 5, 2017
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