Recently there was a cover story in Newsweek Magazine, entitled Hero M.D., The Amazing Story of the Wars Most Fearless Doctor. It chronicled events on the front lines of Fallujah in which a young Navy doctor, Richard Jadick, saved numerous lives for the First Battalion, Eight Marine Regiment (the “1/8”) in Iraq. As a 38 year old “Gentleman’s Urologists” with a nine-month pregnant wife, Commander Jadick surprisingly responded to a Medical Committee’s call due to an acute shortage of doctors. Fallujah, a city in the Sunni territory west of Baghdad, was filled with insurgents and was home to the bloodiest battles of the Iraqi War to date. As a critical trauma surgeon, the wounded he eventually treated saw injuries that could kill a man in between three and fifteen minutes. Thus, with helicopter evacuation out of the question, Jadick was stationed right on the front line. The article journals, in devastatingly horrific manner, the scenes in which soldiers were either saved, maimed or died in his arms. Marine after Marine with excruciating injuries were brought to him as he would be covered in blood treating gruesome gun and mortar wounds. He provided great emotional comfort and treated each man “like his brother”. Even as he was interviewed for the story two years later, as he recounted certain events he would pause and weep quietly to the interviewer. As the wounded were increasingly ripped apart by booby traps and suicide bombers, Jadick built a morgue so that the remaining corpsman would not have to “see the shattered bodies piling up.” His Commanding Officer stated, “I have never seen a doctor display the type of coverage and bravery that Rick did during Fallujah”.