Military Trauma Surgeon Rates 9 More Battle Wounds In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

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As a medic myself, that Private Ryan scene always felt too real to me. Dude is trying to triage himself while dealing with obvious blood loss, paralysis, pain, and most likely going into shock as a result of blood loss. Then when he says "Oh God my Liver!!!" it just hits so hard because he's the only one there who realizes "that's it, he's probably done for"... (the liver has so much sinusoidal vasculature there's no way to survive a traumatic wound to the liver without getting to a hospital immediately. I mean, unless the bullet just sort of "knicks" the liver.) There's the Hepatic artery, Hepatic vein, Portal vein, and the liver kind of hugs the thoracic aorta and inferior vena cava, not to mention the gall bladder could leak into the body causing peritonitis, or the bullet could carry on into your kidney which can cause massive blood loss if injured as well. It's just a really really really sucky place to be shot by a German WW2 rifle, with a 7.92×57mm projectile (yeah, that's yuge) in a field somewhere hours from any hospital, in 1944... and he knows it... Just chilling. "Tell us how to fix you, Wade! Tell us what to do~!" (pregnant pause) "I could use a little more morphine" that was the most dark and depressing line in the whole film for me.

I have much respect for this doctor. The stress he must go through is off the charts and for anyone who can do this is Superman to me.

That scene from Private Ryan is so incredibly hard to watch. Watching amputation scenes is one thing; but seeing how the medic slowly realizes he is going to die, his comrades willing but ultimately unable to help, all acted out so intensely ... damn, what a tremendous scene.

Dr. Peter Rhee is one of my favourite Insider guests. He's detailed and fun to watch and listen to.

Don't know how doctors like him do it. To calmly assess wounds so horrible and to formulate a way to fix them, to keep their patients alive. Just incredible.

The way Dr. Rhee calmly and casually says, "this is a common scenario," when talking about an I.E.D. just goes to show how different his life has been to the rest of us. I know it's a reaction video but the complete LACK of reaction is just as impressive.

I`ve worked with Doctors as their Driver and their level of intelligence and knowledge is astonishing.What also amazes me is how they stay calm and collected among the blood,guts and gore when most people would be throwing up.Dr Rhee is a very impressive man.🙂

I love how he just casually says that he's performed surgery on himself before lmao certified badass

Saving Private Ryan scene. To realize your own fate and then have to accept it in that moment ... with battle all around you and your comrades not wanting to give up. Very emotional. Everyone knows that scene and it's one of the best in cinema history imo.

As a Marine combat veteran I have the highest respect for "Doc". You guys are amazing! Semper Fi!

My father was a physician in an Army field hospital in WW2. He never, ever talked about his experiences during the war. He did like to talk about multicourse French meals he ate after the war was over and he was down in Southern France near Carcassonne.

Forget all the fake Hollywood 'superheroes' you see in movies. This guy is a real hero to the people whose lives he saved.

5:28 - Master and commander - it is during Napoleonic War, there was no anesthetics (it appeared in 1846), they used only alcohol to reduce pain. Also, no antibiotics, for infections. It was a warship, in the middle of the ocean, so the navy surgeons in English fleet were very experimented in amputating. I know that they could amputate a leg in less than 1 minute. And the tools used in the movie are corresponding to the period. Also, regarding the extraction of the bullet, as an act in itself, it was mandatory not due to the infection caused by the bullet, but because it was a low velocity bullet, meaning it was taking into the wound also the fabric of the clothes, and those pieces of fabric will cause the infection.

As a Korean, it's always a wonder to watch Peter Rhee getting all the notice he deserves. I Wish they do more series reviewing military trauma with him.

There’s nothing cooler than listening to an obviously intelligent, humble, funny badass. This guys the real deal.

Dr Rhee is a legend! He treated Gabby Gifford. I've been to trauma conferences where he's presented and he is a excellent speaker and his knowledge and experience is incredible. I could listen to him lecture all day long

That scene in Saving Private Ryan got me. The Medic being able to go through and treat so many people and wounds and in the end when he was calling for his Mom. It got me.

7:25 in Master & Commander the reason to remove the bullet was very important. Bullets were spherical at that time and often they were taking parts of the clothes. Having fabric in the wound means sepsis.

Just love how brutally honest Dr Peter Rhee is and also the great explanation as to why he rates it that way.