Air Force elite surgical team on anticipating the next patient
An estimated 26,000 American troops are deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. If they're wounded in action, their survival rate is now about 90 percent, the highest it's ever been in combat. At Hurlburt Field, outside Pensacola, Florida, Tony Dokoupil spoke to emergency medicine physician Maj. Regan Lyon, anesthesiologist Maj. Dan Farber, and surgeon Maj. Marc Northern about why not seeing patients can be more stressful.