cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr spent time with a group of doctors, medics, nurses and medical teches who are all themselves now getting ready to deploy. for these men and women heading off to war, a big city hospital like the one where i work, can be a perfect training ground. reporter: dr. john renshaw stops to check on one of his patients. he suffered massive injuries at his job when he was caught in a conveyer belt. his cousin translates into their native haiti. renshaw is an oncologist. he treats cancer. why is he here? dr. john renshaw is major john renshaw, united states air force. he s deploying to the front lines of afghanistan to treat the war wound. but before he goes, he along with other military medical personnel will complete a tour of duty here at the university of maryland shock trauma center in baltimore. sharpening their ability to deal with critical trauma patients. the wounds appear to be superficial. category a now. trauma. trooper on
it has left a mark. in many ways, the strong connection between the battlefield and medical care at home. i work at a level one trauma center at grady hospital. some of the techniques that we use, for example, cutting out part of the skull to relieve pressure on the brain was developed in the military. in the last decade out of necessity. it is not a one-way connection. we have barbara starr who spent time with a group of doctors and medical technicians who are all getting ready to deploy. for these men and women, heading off to war, a big city hospital like the one where i work, can be a perfect training ground. this doctor stops to check on an injured patient. he suffered massive abdominal injuries at the maryland factory job when he was caught in a conveyer belt. we will keep an eye on that. his cousin peter translates into the creole of their native haiti. but rimshaw treats cancer. why is he here? dr. john renshaw is deploying to the frontlines of stafghanistano tr
citizens. that would be a drastic step. that s why they have so much more prestige from the police and have to be cognizant they re putting that in jeopardy. to come back to u.s. leverage. i know you said repeatedly, how about the billion dollars in aid everybody talks about? does the military care that much about it? sure, they care but not more than they home about their home political future. it s important but what s going on in the street, the relationship between the military and mubarak is far more fundamental. how much do we foe, if anything, about how public opinion outside the square, outside the streets we can see on camera in cairo are being affected by this violence? is this squaring people to say we want peace and stability or are they saying mubarak has to go. possibly neither. they simply want order. that s one of the dangerous things. when things deteriorate you don t want the choice to be chaos or order because then they might vote for repression or muslim b
starting strong, we went to fort sam houston in texas where all combat medics are created and trained and i was around a thousand young people between 18 and 25 and all volunteered to be combat medics and all knew they were going be deployed to combat zones and i was taken by them as a group, how impressive they were. and i played great military characters and roles in films over my career and so i don t know why the bond is there but it is there. shannon: are you hoping that the average american out there who gets a chance to watch your different can gain a deficits insight for appreciation into the military? i hope they get a sense how much the meantors and older people in the military care about the people they are training. they look at these kids like their sons and daughters. a lot of these kids they are training, they are parents themselves and they do have that kind of care and bond that i have seen anyway and my son
their own purchase? actually, the bill stipulates that most military care is not achbted by the law, but a drafting error left some doubt, but it was tweaked to fix it, so palin s false charge about death panels were evaporated and the old standby the overwhelming number of people in minnesota s 6th congressional district want nothing to do with the government takeover of health care. reporter: government takeover of health care and the legislation actually builds on the current system which is why the president s senior adviser david axelrod told me it is a recycled false claim. i think that some of the arguments you heard yesterday were really tenny if not bewildering because they didn t bear resemblance to the program being voted on. reporter: but the president also made at least one statement that is highly questionable, as he ecited the congressional budget office s projection that the bill will reduce the deficit