As a child, I was a military dependent. For treatment, we would go to the hospital on the local base, and were mostly treated by corpsmen. Think nurse-trainees. There were occasions where I had to walk a corpsman through inserting an IV (since I had previously had it done multiple times, and they had never done it before.)
But I had one severe injury where I would have died within an hour if they hadn't been able to fix me up (ruptured spleen). Most others hospitals would not have had the trauma response at the time (1979) to handle such an injury, so I really lucked out. I believe that if the base hospital does not have needed specialists, they will either train, fly you to another base that does, or let you go to an outside service. My info on this is 20+ years out of date, though, so take it all with a large grain of salt. Jerry Johnson Web Developer Dolan Media Company >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/02/05 01:49PM >>> That is information I want to know also, and is socialized insurance, or care. For instance, is the Hospital kept separate from the government, and you have insurance that is paid by the government, or do you go to a doctor that is employed by the government. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148893 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
