![]() The captain introduced himself and told me Vo-Han, who was in fact thirteen years old, was employed by the U.S. ![]() The Army captain seemed to be uneasy, and I instinctively felt a strange sensation of aggression towards him and the other two soldiers. I suddenly got the feeling that this was an unusual patient. In this case, though, Vo-Han was obviously a child of no more than fourteen years old. Army uniform, complete with name tag and flashes on his shoulders, again not too unusual, as the Vietnamese often wear a confusing variety of clothes and uniforms. What I did notice was that he was wearing a U.S. There was nothing unusual about that nor about the fact that Vo-Han had both legs amputated below the knees. I realized I would not get that part of my work completed that morning. I was sitting at my desk trying to evaluate the work we had turned out over the past month, when Vo-Han was brought in on a wheelchair. It was a mixture of anger, frustration, compassion, call it what you will, and it was caused by the appearance at our Rehabilitation Centre of a thirteen year-old boy named Vo-Han. Then, one day, a patient turns up and you notice something different, and that old feeling which you thought was either dead or dying suddenly wells up inside you. After all, it's just another case like you have seen a hundred or a thousand times before. A new case comes in, a shattered body or a numbed and paralyzed mind, and you take on the job of repairing it with hardly a flinch. You can look at a gaping wound, a crippled body a legless child, and no extra adrenalin pumps into your veins and no anger rises up. Then, after a while, particularly if you work in the medical field your senses become dulled. One’s first few months here are often a series of stomach-turning revelations. by Roger Marshall, Prosthetist, Quaker Rehabilitation Center, Vietnam, 1969Īnyone who spends, say, more than a year in Vietnam runs into the danger of becoming immune to shock. Latest Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.See also, The Story of Le Trinh, Completing the Circle by Roger Marshall Cook, Paul (Introduced ) Cosponsors: (27) ![]() ![]() Newhouse, Dan (Introduced ) Cosponsors: (13) Latest Action: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Military Bio: He brings seven years of Army Reserve experience, where he helped train a mobile hospital support unit and rose to the rank of Captain. Marshall serves on the House Ag Committee, the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and the House Small Business Committee. He has also coached in his community youth sports programs, and spends as much time as possible at Quivera National Wildlife Refuge and Cheyenne Bottoms. He has been an Elder, Deacon, and twice board chair of his church. He is a board member of Farmer’s Bank and Trust, the community bank that has served central Kansas for 100 years. His life began on a Kansas farm, and and he preserves his deep agricultural appreciation and understanding through participating in a cattle feeding operation.Ĭommunity has been a pillar of Marshall’s life, and is a focus to this day. Marshall will utilize his depth of medical and family experience, and much more. Following his residency, he returned to Kansas where he began his practice in Great Bend.Ĭoming to Congress to represent Kansas’ 1st District, Dr. In his final year of residency, he was not only named Teacher of the Year by all other residents and faculty, but also received the Resident Research Award. ![]() He received his Medical Doctorate in 1987 and moved on to his residency in St. Marshall graduated from Kansas State University with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry before attending University of Kansas Medical School. Marshall has delivered more than 5000 babies, giving him a deep appreciation for the sanctity of life, and an intimate understanding of the healthcare system. He and his wife, Laina, have been married for 32 years and are the parents of four children and grandparents to one. Roger Marshall, Congressman for Kansas’ Big 1st District, is a physician, and devoted father and husband. ![]()
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