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MORE THAN 2000 wounded Iraqi prisoners of war have been treated by US military physicians since the cease fire order in Operation Desert Storm. Many of the more than 3100 physicians of the US Air Force, Army, and Navy full-time and reserve military medical corps and the US Department of Transportation's Coast Guard, of course, now have returned from the Persian Gulf area. But some physicians still are in the Gulf region in support of the remaining US forces. A number of these US military physicians have been caring for the wounded Iraqi prisoners, according to Enrique Mendez, Jr, MD, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. These patients are among the last of thousands of Iraqi prisoners of war who are being repatriated. The US physicians treating them of course are gaining additional experience in caring for war wounds. And the Iraqis, some of them veterans of the 8-year
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