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Large-Scale Combat Operations, Urgency, Planning, and Why Military Medicine May Be Running Out of Time: COL Donald J. Kosiak, MD

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

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

COL Donald J. Kosiak, MD, has spent almost thirty years in the Army National Guard, and he has spent most of that time doing arithmetic that the rest of military medicine has been slow to do. An emergency physician by training, South Dakota's State Surgeon, and Chief Medical Officer at Leidos, he joined WarDocs at the Defense Strategies Institute Operational Medicine Symposium in San Antonio to make an argument that is easy to state and hard to absorb: the conversations military medicine is comfortable having are conversations about individual patients, and the next fight will not be fought one pa...