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24/05/2010

BBC Radio Scotland - ER Afghanistan

Jackie Bird hears about life after the frontline for doctors and nurses from 205 Regiment.

Jackie Bird hears from the doctors and nurses of Scotland's first field hospital, 205 Regiment, as they return from treating soldiers and civilians caught up in the Afghan war.

How far would you go to save another man's life? And at what personal cost? How much human carnage is too much to witness even if you're trained to save lives? In 'ER Afghanistan - Scotland's TA Field Hospital' Jackie Bird hears from some of the members of 205 Regiment as they return from 3 months on the frontline in Afghanistan and finds out what it takes to keep your head and heart together when you volunteer to save lives in the most harrowing surgical theatre of all, the theatre of war.

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