The role of a combat medic has changed dramatically over the decades with war zone healers tasked with keeping up or becoming a burden. Voodoo Medic Corporal Jody Tieche explains the “ditch medicine mentality” of the elite specialist forces group and how they gain the respect of the soldiers they look after. 
 

Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”, listen to their stories.

Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.

Voodoo Medics

The role of a combat medic has changed dramatically over the decades with war zone healers tasked with keeping up or becoming a burden....

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