Happy 2023 to all, and thank you for joining us for a very special column. As physician anesthesiologists, we work on the “front lines” of perioperative medicine – we take in-house calls, cover obstetrical and trauma units, and provide transplant and other urgent/emergent care at all hours. As practicing clinicians, military physicians do all of the above, but as members of the armed forces, they can find themselves on the “front lines” literally and figuratively. Military doctors have the responsibility of keeping our country, our fellow citizens, and our armed forces personnel healthy, protected, and safe from harm. These doctors may provide care in an existing military hospital, a temporary hospital in a forward area, an aircraft, or on a sea-going vessel and can be deployed at a moment's notice to the far corners of the world.
Dr. Bryan Laliberte is an active-duty Army officer and practicing anesthesiologist who will...
