Surgeon learns medical advances can be products of war

Surgeon learns medical advances can be products of war

Posted by Chronicle News Service March 18, 2008 09:23AM
Categories: Grand Rapids
Chronicle News Service/Lori Niedenfuer Cool

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Clifford Jones takes a break between surgeries at Grand Valley Surgical Center on Leonard Street NE. Jones went to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany earlier this year to operate on U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
GRAND RAPIDS — On a normal day in the operating room, West Michigan surgeon Clifford Jones sees his share of broken bones and crushed limbs.
But wounded soldiers from Iraq or Afghanistan with blast injuries, embedded shrapnel or the grisly aftermath of suicide bombs are something else.