Surgeon Recounts His Medical Military Experiences During the Vietnam War
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Eugene Edynak, MD was drafted into the Vietnam war during the eighth month of his surgical residency at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his airborne and Special Forces Officers training he was ordered to Vietnam. Shortly after his arrival in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, he, and his team were responsible for designing and transforming a small convalescent dormitory into a mini-trauma unit for indigenous mercenary soldiers, with two operating rooms, a housing for the field X-ray unit, and a laboratory.
- FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Eugene Edynak, MD was drafted into the Vietnam war during the eighth month of his surgical residency at the University of Pennsylvania.
- After completing his airborne and Special Forces Officers training he was ordered to Vietnam.
- "Although it's been some 57 years since my time in Vietnam, I'm proud of the little trauma hospital I helped to create," said Edynak.
- That is, I was neither dismissed from my residency, kidnapped nor did I end up in the stockade."