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Article: The cost of war
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
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- May 20, 2008
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The cost of war Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion CEF Harold W. McGill MD Editor, Marjorie Barron Norris University of Calgary Press; 2007 379 pp $39.95 ISBN 978-1-55238-193-9
In World War I, Captain Harold McGill was the family doctor for a battalion of 1000 Canadian soldiers that was shipped off to the killing fields of the Western Front in 1915.
Given the current gnashing of teeth over Canada's mission in Afghanistan, McGill's memoir of his years as medical officer for the 31st (Calgary) Battalion is especially poignant as a reminder of the cost of war - and of the soldiers who pay the bill.
It was physicians such as ...