What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

[TabsTabs1964]

What's wrong doctor?


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On the back of this excellent portrait is written: Siedlice Kriegslazarett. January 1944

At times like these, it is when societies understand the true value of their health services. The work of doctors, surgeons, paramedics, nurses and the importance of having hospitals and operating rooms to preserve the most important value after people's lives: their health.
I want to use these days of forced confinement at home to start a new thread to gradually upload a couple of hundred photographs and images related to this topic.
It is my collection of images from the Wehrmacht health services and many of them from the Russian campaign.
I do not intend to make an erudite and systematic study, since I had not written anything on the subject and there will undoubtedly be many fantastic threads about degrees, emblems, etc, etc. It is about sharing the images that I have been gathering over the years with all my friends on the forum.


Oberarzt shoulder straps.

I trust that this will help us entertain ourselves in these difficult days.
I hope that we all learn something and please feel free to share any images related to the topic.
I will improvise every day, but approximately I will upload images of vaccines, doctors, paramedics, ambulances, nurses, hospitals, wounded, convalescent ...



Our species has faced very serious situations on other occasions, as the members of this forum well know. Let's trust our scientists and our healthcare systems. Once again as after the Spanish flu in 1918 and with the help of God, we will prevail.

Best wishes to all members of the forum and their families.
I hope you enjoy.
Santi.

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The importance of vaccination.
As we all know a vaccine is "a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.
The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines use to be prophylactic: to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or "wild" pathogen"


Soldbuch. Pag. 9

Page 9 of the soldbuch was used to record the vaccines and their dates for each German soldier:
"Pocken Erfolg" (Smallpox), "Thyfus" (Typhus), "Paratyphus" (paratyphoid), "Cholera" (cholera), "Ruht" (dysentery), etc.
The subsections were used to record the date of inoculation as well as the doses of each vaccine or treatment.


Thanks to our friend René for this image of his latest? thread




Russia


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Russia, 1941

[TabsTabs1964]

In addition to the vaccines we have talked about, specifically outlined in the Soldbuch, soldiers were also checked for venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea.
So, put your pants down and let's see your weapon, soldier!

[JPhilip]

Oberarzt shoulder straps.

Hello Santi,
The shouldboards that you're showing are for a Stabsarzt (= Hauptmann), not for an Oberarzt (= Oberleutnant).
The Oberarzt has only one "pip" on each shouldboard, not two...
Nice thread...
Thanks

[TabsTabs1964]

Thanks Jean Philipp. I think I will need your help more times in my amateur knowledge of shouldboards.
Santi.

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Since I'm not a specialist in the organizatión of the Military medical services (Truppensanitätsdienste), I follow the descriptions of the German military doctor Peter Bamm (pseudonym of the doctor Kurt Emmrich, 1897-1975) in his unforgettable book of memories "The Invisible Flag", which is for me the best and most enjoyable description of life in the Wehrmacht medical service units. I highly recommend it to everyone.




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Sanitäter shouldboards




1940



Each trained paramedic had a set of medical bags. These were similar in shape to undivided ammunition bags, but slightly larger.

The one on the left side contained bandage material (50 bandages, 6 triangular bandanas, an elastic bandage), a cotton pack (250 gr.) And a pack of gauze pads, dissection forceps, probe scissors and stylet; the one on the right side contained a bottle of hydrogen peroxide or better tablets to prepare it at the moment, some medications such as tincture of iodine, zinc splints, formaldehyde ointment (to disinfect), medications (aspirin, pyramidon, tanalbumin, and bismuth subnitrate).

[TabsTabs1964]

Each infantry platoon 9 landser + 1 Gefreiter initially had a paramedical trained soldier. Those platoon or squad paramedics were the first men with first aid skills to attend to any soldier who was injured.





In units of the size of these two photos there is a soldier with sanitary knowledge and a first aid kit.

So during marches, breaks, or any non-combat time every small group of soldiers has a knowledgeable comrade and medical equipment to bandage a dislocation or stop a bleeding caused by a cut.

There is also time for small wound treatments for the peasants in the villages where the company is housed.





But as combat begins and wounds begin, their work increases.....

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Gunshots, broken bones, shrapnel wounds and major bleeding make the wounded scream Sanitäter! Sanitäter! And they act practicing first aid to their comrades.





In the company there was also a paramedic (Sanitäter) and a paramedical non-commissioned officer (Sanitätsunteroffizier). These two men from each company joined the battalion doctor during combat at the battalion aid station.

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During combat, they formed concentration points for the wounded, called "wounded´s nests." This allowed for more efficient care of the wounded and a quicker transfer to the First Aid Station of the Military Medical Company, which normally consists in a few tents, one of which is a small operating room.



The tranquility of the faces of these soldiers indicates that the combat is over. His wounds are bandaged and waiting to be transferred to the rear

Next, the stretcher bearers transfer the wounded to a First Aid Station.


A German soldier and three Russian POW move a stretcher with a wounded soldier





Two Russian isbas used as first aid posts. In the second photo we see a paramedic in a moment of relaxation fed to goats leaning out the window....


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In this photo we see a group of surgeons during a break in an advanced surgical post. On its reverse is written: Feldlazarett Rjabinki. Oriel.

[TWS]

Slightly off topic but good illustrative photo of a Sonderfürhrer that you posted.