Tag: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Lebanon: a thumbprint in medicine
Jonathan Mina Beirut, Lebanon Fig 1. Dr. Debakey, holding the MicroMed-DeBakey VAD (ventricular assist device) with one of his heart transplant patients, David Saucier, a NASA Johnson Space Center engineer. Photo by NASA. July 29, 2013. Via Flickr. CC BY-NC 2.0. Lebanon is a country that has long developed and exported physicians and other…
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Krutika Parasar New Jersey, United States Walter Reed National Military Medical Center In February 2007 a highly damaging scandal shook the renowned Walter Reed Army Medical Center to its very foundations. In a series of articles about the facility, the Washington Post reported deplorable infrastructure and unsanitary conditions in outpatient rooms and bureaucratic delays…