MILITARY SURGEONS WHO have criticized the Pentagon for failing to deploy them in busy settings where they can maintain their readiness to care for injured troops, say the Department of Defense is instead planning to cut their jobs.
The proposed job cuts are part of a massive reorganization of military medicine that will, for the first time, wrest control of military hospitals and clinics from the Surgeons General of the Army, Navy and Air Force and consolidate them under the command of the Defense Health Agency, created in 2013 to better coordinate military medical care. The handover of military hospitals and clinics is set to begin in October.
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