Trauma surgeon and Navy veteran Dr. Peter Rhee rates 10 battlefield medical scenes in movies and television for realism.
Dr. Rhee discusses the accuracy of medical war scenes in “Hacksaw Ridge” (2016), starring Andrew Garfield; “Three Kings” (1999), featuring Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney; “Saving Private Ryan” (1998), featuring Tom Hanks; and “Cherry” (2021) with Tom Holland. He also comments on the reality of bullet and grenade wounds in “Black Hawk Down” (2001), “Band of Brothers” (2001), and “M*A*S*H” (1973) and analyzes combat medical procedures in “The Outpost” (2020), “Our Girl” (2014), and “Combat Hospital” (2011).
Dr. Peter Rhee is a trauma surgeon and a veteran of the United States Navy, where he served for 24 years. He is currently the chief of acute care surgery and trauma at the Westchester Medical Center. He wrote the book “Trauma Red” about his experience as a trauma surgeon.
“Trauma Red” by Dr. Peter M. Rhee: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trauma-Red/Peter-Rhee/9781476727318
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Military Trauma Surgeon Rates 10 Battle Wounds In Movies & TV | How Real Is It?
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What an amazing surgeon. 👏 Thank you sir
Today I learned that army medics replaced morphene with ketamine
Maybe they bit their tongue hard to get a mouthful of blood, I’ve bitten by tongue when I am hit with sudden force. One time I fell off a ladder and bit my tongue causing a mouthful of blood. I spit it out, it looked really gruesome
As a medic the tourniquet was how we keep them alive to get them to you. Most carried one in the leg pocket and one in the arm. Generally taught to set it high and tight while you call in the 9-line.
Tourniquet on two hours results dead leg? I thought it to be like six hours.
Teller mines and toe poppers in WWII.
Ask any Army field medic what they do and they'll all tell you some variation of "I keep their blood in until we can get them to a doctor". Medics basically perform advanced first aid in extremely high pressure environments to give the injured the best chance possible once they make it to the hospital. I love how calm and knowledgeable this man was and can't imagine the number of lives he's saved over the years both personally and through the knowledge he's passed on to others.
@insider we need him back asap it’s time
This guy was amazing!
"Where are they burned?"
"Yes."
I'd actually give the Black Hawk Down scene props for realism because the character in that scene, Schmidt, is a medic and as Dr. Rhee says, they don't clamp stuff in the field, or do advanced surgery. So them making mistakes in that scene in how to do things I would actually say made it more realistic (Plus, the incident the film depicts happened in 1993, so them having the IV drip would also be pretty accurate to the time as well)
Gosh this guy is awesome. He's properly on it, wow.
I'm calling bullshit on almost all of this! I was Navy Corpsman in ramadi from 2006 and 2007, the dentist officer was the triage officer the surgeon was the surgeon. A lot of what this guy says is bullshit, not sure when he was there.
Thanks for yer service and bless you for all you've done
Did anyone think he looked like Saenchai?
that wasnt a tournequet it was a field dressing' We dont use tournequets in the uk our research shows that direct pressure is as good without the dangers. the mark on the cheek was to say he'd had morphine. ex royal navy medic here.
Retired RN here, Doc Rhee. Watching medical shows, does it ever annoy you when the docs are all doing the work that RNs otherwise do? (My wife hates watching medical shows with me! ;-))
as for the burn patient, i got 2nd degree burns from candle wax getting splashed all over my hands and it was so painful it was proactically paralyzing. i couldn't move i just stood still biting my lips while my family basically dragged me to the kitchen. so yea the convulsing is unrealistic bc it hurts so much your body refuses to move
Doc, I salute you immensely! This series has true experts in their field. Men of courage and grit. So unlike the cowardly child nut job Donald Trump.
This guy is a complete badass
I keep getting these us army training infomercials so i sunsubscribe businessinsider. I guess they are warning other countries against war
Interesting video
I love it when guys like this give a low rating with a smile lol
Hi, I’m a civilian medic. While I like his hutzpah; at around 3 minutes in the film he states that the medics job wasn’t to clamp thing and only get them to the surgeon. While I applause his boast and admiration for surgeons alone. Our job is so much more than “getting them to the surgeon.” We as medics train to stabilize and pre-treat the patients out in exposed elements so we can get them to that controlled environment and professional help.
I wlda liked to have seen his review on LONE SURVIVOR..
I’d want Dr. Rhee taking care of me if I got shot.
I am glad you were there to help our soldiers!
If saenchai was a doctor
I know I’m late but how come you didn’t do any on We were soldiers ?
There is zero chance I’d ever be able to do what these guys do.
Mad respect to military medics and trauma surgeons you all are some unsung hero’s for real
I remember how painful tourniquets are, it was just training and obviously not tight enough but someone basically tightens a strap, then puts the rod or any improvised stick through the loop and starts spinning it which gets it extremely tight due to leverage and it feels horrible.
Totally feels like your limb doesn't exist below it and you lose all mobility until it's released and it's so painful even when not fully done
Wow. Take a lesson from this guy huh. Cool.
if there was one positive aspect to the last wars, it has to be the evolution of medical treatment and knowledge in dealing with severe trauma.
Actually the true pain from a tourniquet comes after the surgery and you start to heal and the bruising kicks in your bruised from your thigh think pelvic area all the way to your ankle a nice deep true purple but yes it is always life over limb first and foremost 🫤
16:49 is it true? I keep hearing conflicting comments about how long a tourniquet can stay on before limb needs to be amputated.
I just like his AP
for what i do, you dont need alot of stuff. coming from the man who can single handedly save your life. this guys the man
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