Acute Problems and Emergency Surgery: Soft Tissues and Skeleton

The authors of this chapter include specialists, many of whom have extensive deployment experience. The target group of this chapter, however, is not their fellow-specialists; but the “junior” doctors, trying to help them find their way in the difficulties posed by an “adverse” environment. That junior doctor will be confronted by all imaginable ailments and injuries, and should be a true generalist. As we’re all aware, even in medical school nowadays there’s a tendency to make students choose the direction of their future work at an ever earlier stage; the opposite of what’s needed for a generalist.