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Army Medic here, I love how this guy differentiated us grunt medics from surgeons. I get asked about random medical conditions all the time, my answer is always "I have no idea, my job is to keep air moving in your lungs, keep juice in your veins, and get the casualty to someone who can do this better than me!"

Love how he explained what they would and wouldn't do in the military and civilian scenarios Alot of people don't understand how tenacious it is to be a surgeon let alone one in an extremely high stress fast pace environment like the military. Very knowledgeable breakdowns. Thank you for your service.

"If it's not your heart and your major vessels, we can save you" is the most stone cold thing anyone has ever said. This guy is a beast.

Holy crap!! I served with this guy at Camp Junction City in Ramadi, Iraq back in 2005-2006. Such a cool dude! I learned a LOT from him. That picture of him in the beginning of the video is when he was in the OR we had at JC and my friend Lauren is right behind him! So cool to see him again! This guy is legit!

The fact that this guy doesn't have the thousand yard stare and still smiles is amazing to me I bet you he's seen some stuff.

It's so cool how calm he is talking about stuff that would make most people pass out if they see it

I've worked with Dr.Rhee in a level 1 trauma center in the States and can attest to what he saying. He's legit, professional, and efficient. He'll be in critical trauma situation and speaking to you just like this, calm and collect. I loved working with him and learned a lot.

If anyone was curious, this doctor is 100% legit, in the military's TCCC training there is a video of him helping perform a cricothyroidotomy on a patient in the middle east.

In that episode of Band of Brothers the two Medics actually spent the first 15 minutes(2 real world days) going from aid station to aid station asking for plasma, morphine, bandages, and scissors.

I remember I had someone with their intestines spilling out. He was screaming and trying to hold them, but that caused him to bleed even more and might have caused a puncture. I covered him up with a AB pad and .9, and remember yelling at him to stop screaming and not grab them. I feel so terrible that I yelled at that man for reacting completely normal. The man wanted comfort and his family, and I yelled at him. I hope he's ok, and I hope someday he and God can forgive me.

From what I understand, Hacksaw Ridge is an accurate recreation of Desmond Doss’s service during WWII. He was a Seventh Day Adventist and refused to carry a weapon due to his religious beliefs, thus becoming a medic. He saved anywhere from 50-100 men in the Battle of Okinawa and received a Medal of Honor for that service.

I was a surgery resident of Dr Rhee at University of Arizona. This man speaks surgical knowledge worth chapters in few words. Still recall cases I managed in the trauma bay with Dr Rhee and what he taught me. One particularly, a patient transferred from Mexico result of cartel shooting. Everyone was worried about the situation, Dr Rhee came in calmly and made everyone focus on the real problem, patient's life.

I just want to say thank you to Dr. Rhee, he saved my cousin's life and is the reason he still has the use of his right leg.

This guy is amazing, can we get more of him? Could literally listen for hours

I was an EMT for under a year and years later I still have trouble with some of the things I’ve seen. I can’t imagine 25 years in the field. Bless this man, he’s unwavering.

I'm glad they included M*A*S*H in here. I have a little bit of medical experience in the civilian world but I can't imagine what it's like in combat. The line from M*A*S*H that always sticks with me is: "Rule number 1 in war, is that young men die. Rule number 2 is, doctors can't change rule number 1."

I was a combat medic in Iraq and Afghanistan, totally agree with everything he said. I had the honour of observing the trauma surgeons in Camp Bastion and these guys worked miracles, they saved the lives of people who simply shouldn't be alive today. I treated and medevaced a guy with quadruple limb amputations, I was shocked he was still alive when we got him on the MERT. I'm still shocked he is still alive today thanks to these guys.

You should bring him back for more because he’s excellent at this. I could listen to him for hours. I like seeing the contrast between a civilian doctor and a military one, and the differences in how they do their work. It’s fascinating! I’m sure he’s got tons of crazy stories he could share. I’d like to see him react to more medical scenes even if they aren’t military related. You could have him check out self administered or improvised medical care from movies and TV. Things like someone treating their own gunshot or knife wound like the Javier Bardem one in No Country For Old Men. I think there was also a similar scene in the movie Shooter with Mark Wahlberg if I’m not mistaken. Stuff like that though would be interesting as well and I’d like to hear his professional take on improvised medical care.

I had a teacher in high school that was a combat medic in '03. He said he dealt more with civilians than soldiers. There was one scenario, he told me, where a busload of civilians had been shot up by the Americans because the bus was speeding towards them. After firing several warning shots in the air and flashing the lights got no response, the soldiers opened fire. He told me he'll never forget the guy at the very back of the bus had been shot through the head. A hole the size of a fist was gone in the back of his head with his brain spilling out. My teacher told me his first thought was "Saving Private Ryan" and how he thought the wound looked exactly the same as the opening scene.

I think what struck me is when he was talking about how much “fun” he had… with a subtle sound of joy in his voice. I found it strange that someone would find happiness in such a situation- working on the wounded, sometimes horribly so, and the dying. As I considered it more, though… if I was a patient, that’s exactly who I’d want helping me. Someone with a passion and excitement for his craft. He loves helping people so much he doesn’t even see the horror before him, only the opportunity to do good.