Aug 4, 2022
Vascular Origin Stories is a podcast series that explores the fun and engaging stories that shaped vascular surgery.
Today’s episode will be the first part of a multi-episode series exploring how the young battalion surgeons serving in MASH units in the Korean war pioneered wartime vascular repair. This episode introduces the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), as well as some of the real-life stories from the surgeons unknowingly changing the field of medicine, which inspired the hit movie and TV series M*A*S*H. We’ll look at what caused arterial repair to be removed from the army surgical handbook after WWI and how changing medical education helped create the environment for ingenuity in the MASH units. In part 2, we’ll explore in detail the individual stories of adversity, courage, and perseverance that led to the re-introduction of arterial repair in the military.
Major sources for the episode are linked below, and a full reference list can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Credits:
Author: Marlene Garcia-Neuer
Editor: Sharif Ellozy
Reviewer: Eilidh Gunn
Music and Sound Effects from Pixabay, special thanks to ZakharValaha and BlenderTimer.