U.S. Marines 3rd Medical Battalion dentist examines a patient in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Corpsman writes down into a log book. Over shoulder view of another man making entries into a logbook. A doctor looks at notes and asks questions to the patient. A doctor examines a patient's ear with an otoscope. He swabs out ear of a patient.
U.S. Marines 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A doctor bandages arm and leg of a man on operating table after an operation. Doctor administers a hypodermic needle to a patient after an operation. A doctor sews up a wound on arm of a man after operation.
U.S. Marines 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A Marine comes in with a prescription and hands it over to Pharmacist mate. Pharmacist Mate stands in front of a desk. Shelves filled with bottles and small boxes. Pharmacist Mate with the prescription in hand walks up to medicine cabinet and takes out bottles. Pharmacist measures small portions from each bottle. He mixes prescription in a bowl.
Allied amphibious operation on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War II. A U.S. Marine unfolds a Japanese flag. Sunken Japanese barges in water. Dead Japanese in a boat. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on a filed. Bloodstained face of a dead. A burned out medium tank. A Japanese half track moves across a field.
Surgical theater. Patient brought in. A patient to be operated upon. Doctor with contaminated hands accidentally spills instruments and cuts his rubber glove. Discards only one instrument although unsure which one actually caused the cut glove. A contaminated instrument remains and is used in the surgery.
U.S. Navy sailor patient lying in bed after a surgical operation. A nurse records his temperature and fills up a chart. Cartoon animation shows view as if looking inside the human body, with the blood vessels and the operated part of the patient's body. Streptococcus bacteria had spread into the operated area , destroying leukocytes. Patient lying in bed as he feels unwell. Nurse records the body temperature. Doctors examine the operated area on the patient's leg, suffering blood poisoning. Blood plasma being administered to the patient. Navy doctor (played by Milburn Stone) looks concerned and thinks about what went wrong during the operation, remembering that possibly the instruments were contaminated. Sailor being discharges after recovery. He walks with a cane. He limps as he walks, needing a cane to help him walk for the rest of his life. Flashback of past events in the film show how the doctor sneezed, failed to rescrub, cut his surgical glove, and contaminated surgical instruments, leading to disease in the patient.
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