Canada’s military needs a serious medical upgrade

I am shocked that any government’s military is using nonhuman animals as proxies for soldiers.

A medic with the 1 Canadian Air Division preps a patient during a casualty evacuation exercise onboard a CC-130H Hercules. The devices that can replace animals and improve military medical training are called simulators, because they simulate human anatomy, writes Dr. Robert DeMuth.Photograph courtesy of the CAF/Cpl. Sébastien Lauzier-Labarre

Opinion

BY ROBERT DEMUTH

May 3, 2023

Today, you would not send soldiers into battle with muskets. So why is the Department of National Defence training its medics using 19th century methods?

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