1. Profile: The field medic.
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Vance, Erik
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EMERGENCY physicians ,THROAT surgery ,LARVAL behavior ,PARASITE behavior ,TRAINING of medical students - Abstract
The article profiles Matthew Lewin, an emergency-care doctor with a specialty in widlerness medicine. In addition to operating as a medic in places such as Chile, Peru and Mongolia, he has released more than 40 papers on work that ranges from defensive behaviour of moth larvae and exotic parasites to how to open the throat of a person during improvised surgery. He has trained U.S. special-forces medics, national-park responders and medical students at the University of California in San Francisco, California, in methods to treat patients in the field.
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- 2010
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