[post_page_title]Trauma[/post_page_title]
When Kyle arrived at the Medical Center, the doctors who evaluated his condition didn’t know if his immune system would be able to handle another treatment. Before they came up with a treatment plan, Kyle had to have numerous x-rays. Dr. Debra Malone, Chief of Trauma and Surgery at Walter Reed said: ‘There’s no recipe book for combat trauma or medicine..Someone can be stable and their wounds can look clean, and a few seconds, minutes, hours, or days later, things can look very different. It’s a difficult thing to explain to patients and their families. It’s not a journey on a flat paved asphalt road; it’s a journey through a treacherous mountainous path.’
