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[Ares, God of War]

I'm wathcing moonlight. What is the difference between a doctor and
a medic?

(Mick St. John was a medic in World War 2, Leo in Charmed was a doctor
in World War 2.)

[Hunter]

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Post by Ares, God of War
I'm wathcing moonlight. What is the difference between a doctor and
a medic?
(Mick St. John was a medic in World War 2, Leo in Charmed was a doctor
in World War 2.)

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Military Medics are not doctors, at least most of them aren't. A military
medic whetherr it is a Navy Corpsman or an Army Field Medic is a person
trained to render basic emergency care to a wounded
Sailor/Marine/Airman/Soldier. Stop the bleeding, ease the pain, if
necessary IIRC perform amputations. It is basically to increase the odds
of a wounded soldier of living to get back to a field hospital. Our
civilian paramedics come directly from military medics. Someone got the
brilliant idea that if emergency care can be given on the spot to
battlefield wounded in war, why not do it during peace time in a city for
something like a car accident or gunshot wound or a heart attack? Before
it was just a couple of dudes dressed in all white in white combination
caps in a white van or station wagon scooping you up onto a streacher to
get you to the hospital as fast as possible. With civilian medics, or
Paramedics, you get vital treatment on the way to the hospital. At first
they had to call back to the hospital to have a doctor guide them to
begin care. That is what we saw in the TV show "Emergency" with one of
the paramedics on a Radio phone getting instructions from a doctor in a
hospital. Now the Paramedics are trained enough not to need to have a
doctor figuratively looking over their soulders on a radio phone like the
old days unless something hinky happens that is out of the ordinary. They
usually just notify the hosptial they are rushing to as to the patient's
condition and what they have done so far.

I call upon Doc Sharon to fact check me since I am relying on my memory
again. Most dangerous! :-)

I think the modern paramedic has been around for fourty years now. It was
a great idea that have saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of
lives by now.

A military Doctor is just that a doctor in the military. He has the same
training as a civilian doctor and he himself most likely was a civilian
doctor just like Gallant was before he was called up for duty in Iraq as
a reservist. Perhaps they are trained more to handle military casualties
(this is a guess of mine) and the particular wounds they suffer but
otherwise they are just like say Abby or Neela or Pratt.

[Sharon Too]

Post by Hunter
Military Medics are not doctors, at least most of them aren't. A military
medic whetherr it is a Navy Corpsman or an Army Field Medic is a person
trained to render basic emergency care to a wounded

My friend's son is a medic in the army. He was 18 when he joined and after 6
months of training he was doing pap smears in the clinic. Six months after
that he was helping doctors piece together our soldiers in Kuwait. Fast
forward a year or so and he was stationed in Cuba taking care of the
detainees. What a life. :-(

sharontoo (not Doc)

[Dropping The Helicopter]

Post by Ares, God of War
I'm wathcing moonlight. What is the difference between a doctor and
a medic?
(Mick St. John was a medic in World War 2, Leo in Charmed was a doctor
in World War 2.)

A doctor is a doctor. A medic is an infantryman that's taken a combat
first aid course or two, wears an armband with a red cross on it, and
carries extra bandages instead of a rifle (at least in WWII (the big
one)). Due to the Geneva Conventions he's not allowed to be a
combatant. Nowadays my understanding is that there are no real "medics"
in the Geneva Convention sense (because the "no rifle" rule simply made
them well-marked targets for Nazi and Jap snipers in The Big One), and
one of the regular infantrymen is a sort of "designated combat first aid
guy", but he carries weapons just like the rest of them.

[Mark Nobles]

Post by Dropping The Helicopter

Post by Ares, God of War
I'm wathcing moonlight. What is the difference between a doctor and
a medic?
(Mick St. John was a medic in World War 2, Leo in Charmed was a doctor
in World War 2.)

A doctor is a doctor. A medic is an infantryman that's taken a combat
first aid course or two, wears an armband with a red cross on it, and
carries extra bandages instead of a rifle (at least in WWII (the big
one)). Due to the Geneva Conventions he's not allowed to be a
combatant. Nowadays my understanding is that there are no real "medics"
in the Geneva Convention sense (because the "no rifle" rule simply made
them well-marked targets for Nazi and Jap snipers in The Big One), and
one of the regular infantrymen is a sort of "designated combat first aid
guy", but he carries weapons just like the rest of them.

I knew a guy who was a Quaker. When he was called to serve in Vietnam,
he was declared a CO. So he was drafted into the Navy, where he became
a corpsman. Then he spent a year walking around in the jungle with the
Marines wearing a red cross and completely unarmed. When I knew him, he
was trying to get into med school.

My GP was a premed when Uncle Sam wanted him, so the Army paid him to
finish med school in 1949. Then he only had to work for them a couple
of years, and I don't think he went to Korea.

Lastly, I think that in Europe the Geneva Convention was respected, in
that medics were not targeted and weren't armed. In the Pacific, they
were packing - there were no non-combatants there.