Posted on Apr 19, 2015
What's the BEST thing a military doctor did for you?
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Sometimes military medicine is poked fun at. Because sometimes it has it's issues. My overall experience has been wonderful with Army docs. Personally, the care I receive at Dwight D Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon is EXCELLENT! The dermatology clinic are miracle workers as far as I'm concerned. What is the best thing a military doctor has ever done for you?
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Dislocated shoulder SIX times. CPO was going to write me up for malingering, Doctor popped shoulder loose in his office in front of the CPO! Informed him that I was no longer his problem and get out of his face. He then yelled to his corpsman to get me admitted to the hospital (which I was just long enough to get transferred off the ship). Two months later he zipped open my whole shoulder (long before orthoscopic surgery), removed a small bone chip, and reefed in the rotator. 33 years later it still works. Thank You Doctor Longstreet, orthopod, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, 1983.
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
My recurrent shoulder dislocation was repaired via a “Bankhardt” surgery at Madigan Army Hospital in 1956. Still good to go, but a tweak hand to hand incident in 1962 caused me to tear up the papers to attend jump school via Det 1, Co B, 17th Group.
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The best thing a military doctor has done for me since I enlisted was figuring out that I was allergic to something in the sunscreen they issued me after my head swelled up like a balloon. The best treatment I've ever had at any hospital was at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth after I broke my arm and dislocated my shoulder as a kid.
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