US combat medics face tough choices

Teams in Afghanistan tackle series of obstacles to provide care to injured soliders.

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For injured combatants in Afghanistan, the quality of medical care is often the difference between life and death.

That’s a decision American medics have to make almost every day.

Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher spent time with one combat medical team in Kandahar province and found out that the hospital a person is sent to often depends on what country that person is from.

Source: Al Jazeera