Balad Military Hospital Treats Soldiers, Insurgents

NPR | By John Hendren

Published March 23, 2006 at 4:00 PM EST

A doctor oversees operations in the emergency room at the American military hospital in Balad, Iraq. It is the busiest military hospital in Iraq, seeing hundreds of patients a month from all over Iraq, both military and civilian.

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