An overview of major medical problems encountered, of decisions made, and the lessons learned in Vietnam.

Includes index.

The Medical Command Structure; Medical Service During the Advisory Years; Command and Staff Relationships During the Years of Military Commitment: 1965-67; Nondivisional Command and Staff Relationships: 1967-71.-- Health of the Command; Rates and Trends; Major Problems -- Care of the Wounded; Excellence of Medical Care; Nature of Wounds; Specific Advances --Hospitalization and Evacuation; Hospitalization; Evacuation; Reduction and Reorganization --Medical Supply; Realignment of Medical Supply Activities; The Depot System; Medical Equipment Maintenance Support -- Division And Brigade Medical Support; Usages of Divisional Medical Assets; Medical Support of Separate Infantry Brigades; Trial Reorganization -- Aviation Medicine; Flyer Fatigue; Care of the Flyer Program -- Preventive Medicine; Communicable Diseases; Environmental Sanitation; Professional Conferences -- The Military Blood Program; Evolution of the System; Initial Sources of Whole Blood; Agencies for Expansion of Blood Supply; Relocation of the Central Blood Bank; Group and Type-Specific Blood; Transfusion Reactions; Fresh Frozen Plasma; Wastage of Blood; Technical Research and Innovations; Significant Problems; The Donor System -- Medical Research; Initial Efforts in Southeast Asia; Studies of the Medical Research Team; Special Projects; Surgical Research -- Corps Services; Nursing Service; Dental Service; Veterinary Service; Army Medical Specialist Corps Services -- Medical Assistance To Vietnamese Civilians; Provincial Health Assistance Program; Military Provincial Health Assistance Program; Medical Civic Action Program; Civilian War Casualty Program -- Summary and Conclusions; Medical Command and Control System; Health of the Command; Combat Casualties; Hospitalization; Helicopter Evacuation; Medical Supply; Outpatients; Battalion Surgeons; Impact of Policies; Lack of Responsiveness of the Army Authorization Document System; Research; Vietnamese Civilian Care; Civilian Implications.