The Little Hospital That Could: A Personal Recollection of the 24th Medical Group at the Crossroads of History Volume 1 - O'Neil, Terrence
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The book is an evocative description of the two-year effort of a small team of American and Panamanian medical personnel to provide assurance of high-quality medical care to all remaining Active Duty American Service members, their families, diplomatic staffs and contractors in Panama, as well as the Americans doing counter-drug work in Central and South America. They managed operations of a six-thousand-mile aeromedical evacuation area of responsibility. They were a key part of the initial humanitarian response for the people of Honduras following Hurricane Mitch. Located closer to Colombia…mehr

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The book is an evocative description of the two-year effort of a small team of American and Panamanian medical personnel to provide assurance of high-quality medical care to all remaining Active Duty American Service members, their families, diplomatic staffs and contractors in Panama, as well as the Americans doing counter-drug work in Central and South America. They managed operations of a six-thousand-mile aeromedical evacuation area of responsibility. They were a key part of the initial humanitarian response for the people of Honduras following Hurricane Mitch. Located closer to Colombia than New York is to Chicago, the bi-national team successfully brought the U.S. medical presence in Panama started by Gorgas Army Community Hospital to a close in late 1999, following the closure of that large hospital in mid-1997. The recounting of history is combined with a poignant recounting of the unique beauty of Panama.
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Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Dr. TJ O'Neil graduated from CalTech in Pasadena in 1971 and joined the Air Force as Disaster Preparedness Officer at Nellis AFB until selected for medical training at University of California San Diego. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio where he met his wife Susan, an Air Force Nurse. He then completed a Nephrology Fellowship at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center and the University of Texas San Antonio. He spent three years with his family in the Philippines, then traveled to Travis AFB, California where he was Chief of Medical Staff, Medicine Residency Program Director and Commander of the 60th Medical Ops Squadron. He commanded the hospital at Howard Air Base, Panama, during U.S. facilities closure there. After two years as Air Mobility Command Senior Physician in 2001 he finished a 30-year Air Force career. Following his first retirement, he became civilian Chief of Medical Staff at Scott AFB, moving in 2005 to James Quillen VAMC in Johnson City TN as Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care. He later took charge of the Nephrology Service there. He retired the second time in December 2016 to pursue volunteer teaching, chorale singing, writing, paleontology, inventing, and being a grandad.