army surgeon
Battlefield medical officer
An army surgeon is a physician serving in a military force, responsible for treating wounded soldiers and managing medical care during wartime or peacetime service.
The term appears frequently in historical contexts: The army surgeon amputated limbs by candlelight after the battle.
In modern militaries, such physicians typically hold officer rank.
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- medicEmergency care provider
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- bullet extractionRemoving ammunition from tissue
amputation · limb amputation · triage · field hospital · military hospital · wounded · war wounds · combat · combat zone · stretcher · blood · operating · MASH · Civil War · uniform · chloroform · trauma · battle fatigue
- MASHHawkeye, Klinger, Korea, Korean War, bug out
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, combat medicine, field hospital
- military medicscombat medic, field medic, corpsman, navy corpsman, medic
- Old Healershealer, physician, apothecary, midwife, herbalist