How To Respond To A Soldier's Death

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Monday, January 16th, 1862: Everyday soldiers come into our field hospitals, with minor and very major injuries that they receive in battle. Things around here are so hectic and the doctors here are very stressed. We’re having a hard time keeping up with people that come into the hospitals, because there are so many of them. We are trying our best to help everyone with their injuries, but it has become so overwhelming. So many people have been dying lately and we just can’t take it anymore. I’ll see what’s going on in the hospitals and find out what is killing so many people and report back to you. Wednesday February 1st, 1862: We are very low on staff and with what we have many of the “doctors” here are very inexperienced in the field. They have no idea what…show more content…
Dysentery is a diarrheal illness, which we think is spread by air. Many of the patients who come in with this die of dehydration. However, if we can get to those patients early enough, we give them some sort of painkiller. This medicine will constipate them but it is proven to save their lives. Gangrene has spread fast through the hospitals. It first appears on the body as a black spot on a slowly healing wound but as the disease progresses, it will spread throughout the whole wound and could possibly kill them. We normally will amputate if we see gangrene on a patient. Let’s see if the diseases will go away and then we can progress in the healing of patients. Friday, April 13th, 1862: More doctors are coming in to help at the field hospitals, but they have no experience. We are putting them right in for some hands on experience. Diseases are still being passed around, but we have realized the main problem. The doctors have not been sanitizing their equipment before and after each surgery. We have tried working on that more and getting doctors to sanitize, but it’s hard to do it before each patient because it’s wasting

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