alt Hacker News> don’t think much of the medical advances that prevent that came from combat medicine
Triage and ambulances come from battle medicine [1]. (Not sure about communicable-disease prevention.)
> don’t think much of the medical advances that prevent that came from combat medicine
Triage and ambulances come from battle medicine [1]. (Not sure about communicable-disease prevention.)
Right, those are relatively minor improvements compared to soldiers no longer dying en masse from typhoid, smallpox, measles, etc. Good improvements to be sure, but not quite as significant.