The Good Doctor”a talk by Dr.Ashok Kumar Venugopal

Dr. Ashok is an adult pulmonologist who served in the U.S. Army as a medical officer and as a Veterans Hospital physician, taking care of Vietnam war veterans for over two decades. He was deployed in Iraq as a field surgeon (2003 and 2006), a brigade surgeon in Afghanistan in 2010, and as a battalion surgeon in Kuwait in 2012. He has witnessed the enormous damage caused by war first hand. He shared his experiences of what it takes to serve on the front line and his take on the cost of war.