War and medicine – 100 years after the Great War

Many of us benefit every day from advances which started within the military, such as SatNav systems in our cars. In this edition, we ask whether medicine advanced due to the innovations that started 100 years ago in World War I. For example, do today's PTSD sufferers benefit from the mistakes made with shellshock sufferers all those years ago? And how much is there a link between how today's ambulances treat people and the lessons learned on the battlefields of the Great War?

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