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WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast

Welcome to WarDocs! This is a podcast developed and hosted by Active Duty and Veteran Military Medicine professionals who all possess a passion to honor the legacy and preserve the oral history of Military Medicine and get the stories of these healthcare heroes to inform and…

Podcast · By Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey, Kevin Kniery · English · Official site

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Honoring COL(R) Anthony “Tony” Johnson, MD: An Eye Surgeon's Iraq War Story, His Mentorship Legacy, and a Life With No Regrets (opens the original)

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    Four years after his death, COL (Ret) Anthony Johnson, MD, is still teaching. WarDocs is releasing again a 2021 interview recorded by his colleagues Gary Legault, MD, and Grant Justin while Johnson was living with stage 4 cancer, and his voice carries the same clarity, humor, and conviction that defined three decades in Army medicine. A cornea and refractive surgeon, Tony traces a path into medicine that began with a chance conversation during a third-year OB rotation and grew into a career spen

  2. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Norwegian Surgeon General Petter Iversen on Arctic Casualty Care, the Hard Limits of Cold Weather Medicine, and the Allied Medical Capacity Gap Facing Europe and the Pacific (opens the original)

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    What can a small nation with a fierce warrior tradition teach the world's largest militaries about keeping wounded soldiers alive? Brig. Gen. Petter Iversen, M.D., Surgeon General of the Norwegian Armed Forces and Chair of the NATO Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services, sat down with WarDocs at the Defense Strategies Institute Operational Medicine Symposium in San Antonio to answer it. An orthopedic trauma surgeon with deployments to Afghanistan, Chad, and anti-piracy operations i

  3. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    You Cannot Fire Your Way to Excellence: Prior White House Physician CAPT (Ret) Gerard R. Cox, MD, MHA on Accountability, Just Culture, and High Reliability in Federal Health Care (opens the original)

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    Retired Navy Captain Gerard Cox, MD, built a forty-year career out of a four-year commitment. He signed with the Navy's Health Professions Scholarship Program because his parents had already stretched to pay for an expensive undergraduate education, intending to serve his obligation and return to New England as a general internist. Three months into a medicine internship at Bethesda he knew that path was wrong. A flight surgeon tour with Marine squadrons out of Cherry Point gave him time to matu

  4. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Techniques Interventional Radiologists Use to Stop Deadly Bleeding Without Ever Making an Incision- Dr. John Pavlus (opens the original)

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    Bleeding is what kills people after injury. In this companion conversation to their earlier episode, host and vascular surgeon Dr. Wayne Causey asks Dr. John Pavlus, Chief of Interventional Radiology at Brooke Army Medical Center, to do the thing most medical conversations skip. He walks step by step through exactly how a bleeding trauma patient is treated without major surgery. The tools are small. A needle, a short hollow tube called a sheath placed in the artery at the groin, wires thinner th

  5. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    Expeditionary Interventional Radiology: Make the Case for Endovascular Care Forward on the Battlefield- Dr. John Pavlus and Dr. Jonathon Schutt (opens the original)

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    Bleeding is what kills people after trauma. That single fact sits at the center of this WarDocs episode, in which host Dr. Wayne Causey, a vascular surgeon, sits down with two military interventional radiologists — Dr. John Pavlus of Brooke Army Medical Center and Dr. Jonathon Schutt, an interventional radiology resident at Yale — to examine one of the fastest-moving areas in modern medicine and what it could mean for the wounded service member. Endovascular care, as they describe it, is decepti

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