This is week features US Army Combat Medic SSG Pete Hopkins who shares stories from his deployment to Afghanistan with the infantry. Pete discusses what it was like performing village medicine for local Afghans, treating children & soldiers injured by IEDs, & the challenges of having to start a career in civilian medicine at the bottom rung after a deployment so notable a book was written about it.

This extended episode of Antidotes will keep you captivated until the end.

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