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

Podcast: WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast · Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey

Opublikowano: 2026-09-23

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 spent perfecting the art of suturing. He credits mentors Doyle Stolte and George Waring for the technique he ultimately pu...