two major components the first of all would be the search and rescue capabilities that the forces have and second would be a huge field hospital which has all of the surgery operation rooms and x-ray capabilities and orthopedics and anything for 200 people per day. our goal is three fold first of all, to take our knowledge and capabilities to the people that most need it at this time and to utilize our experience and that we ve gathered over the years in the various missions we ve carried out throughout the world. humanitarian missions like this and that is precisely what we re doing. we expect them to land the first plane should be landing in about two hours now in kathmandu. and they will begin with a search and rescue mostly to try to help get more people out of
place, and you think you are running fast but you are carrying about 80 pounds of equipment. reporter: the americans suffered 3,000 casualties on omaha the first day, but the battle lasted three months. the breakout took much longer than the strategists expected. the orthopedics simple but the orders were simple but hard to execute. you will hold the bridge until you are relieved, regardless of how long it takes and how many casualties. it took four days. 5en 00 casualties. 93-year-old jim martin of ohio made his second parasuit landing in normandy yesterday with a bit of help. oh, yes. nobody is shooting at me. it s much nicer. here in washington, they built the world war ii memorial between the monument to the nation s first president and the one to abraham lincoln.
we currently have an ig investigation. we are also going to need everybody to feel comfortable, because there s a lot of wonderful people with a lot of important data. but we also are going to have the pandora s box of not enough physicians. and the proposed va policy changed nationwide to make all nurse practitioners totally independent, regardless of their state licensing laws. so that s not a good idea. we still need physicians at the center of care for the veterans. dr. hollenbeck, do you think that people died at your hospital as a result of not getting the care they needed in a timely fashion? absolutely. no question. we have people that can t get care, especially in subspecialties such as neurosurgery and orthopedics. but i know there are people who gave up, they didn t keep trying
them. the problem is his teeth is caused by a problem in his brain. so because of that, it is not something that a surgery can correct. over the next ten months, thousands will undergo surgeries to remove tumors, cleft lip repairs and orthopedics corrections and much more. one of the best moving things, when they are waking up, show them their face in a mirror, they are moved that the face that caused them shame, they can see it better even with the bandages on. there are so many angel as board the africa mercy, like chief medical officer dr. gary parker or surgeon mark shrine. i particular develop marvelled at how they work together and how devoted they are to helping others. a lot of people have asked me what was my deepest impression
you re going to get paid an hour to help these people? we don t know exactly, but we know it s a little bit better than medicaid for most of the plans. which isn t much. medicaid well, i ll give you an example. if i see a patient and i examine the patient, take a history, go over the slides, the pathology and look at x-rays and make an opinion about them, that may take an hour, an hour and a half, may take an hour and 15 minutes. medicaid will pay me $6.50, whereas a commercial insurance $6.50 an hour? you should have been a lawyer. that s right. that s right. oh, my gosh, and you re just saving people s lives, that s all you re doing. that s right. so, why should you be paid more than $6.50 an hour? well, that s why a lot of people are not going into medicine that s so sad. and those who are are going into the lucrative fields of non-cognitive functions, orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardio thoracic surgery, not primary care or any kind of speciality. do you