The wonderful increases in medicine - especially the treatment of head injuries - means that many more wounded soldiers are kept alive following injuries that even in the recent past would have led to their death. In Iraq, the use of explosive devices have challenged this rising threshold but many live on.
The advances in treatment have not been matched by any great increase in the facilities for caring for these broken bodies and damaged minds. This is where far greater attention is required. Little point in saving a life if it then lingers on as a living hell.
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