US combat medics face tough choices in Afghanistan

AlJazeeraEnglish
December 21, 2009
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 Khandahar province and found out that the hospital a person is sent to often depends on what country that person is from.