The Importance of the Military's Ability to Get Wounded Warriors Back

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It's 75 degrees in sunny It's a beautiful day You flip on the tv you see that the push is going into Fallujah. The real heroes were some of the orthopedic trauma surgeons and the general surgeons my hats off to them Plastics the mental health providers all of c5 the combat casually care Set up at Balboa did an amazing job, but you know there are nights. I personally at least talk I'd get off call and you'd be like Oh, you know, it's fixed the fourth external fixator. "I've put on the tenth wound vac we've done this," he said. 'The flesh the burning flesh the hearing the helicopter these things that you

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Dr. Matthew Provencher is one of the nation’s leading orthopedic surgeons specializing in the surgical treatment and rehabilitation of injuries to the knee and shoulder.

Captain Matthew T. Provencher, MD MBA MC USNR (Ret.), a native of Barrington, New Hampshire attended Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire and then the United States Naval Academy, where he was appointed the Deputy Brigade Commander (Second in command), graduated with Distinction (Highest Honors) with a Major in Electrical Engineering, and was designated as Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Graduate. He was also inducted into Phi Kappa Phi (The National Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (The National Engineering Honor Society), and Sigma Pi Sigma (The National Physics Honor Society). During his undergraduate years, Dr. Provencher was also a 4-year varsity oarsman and First-Team All-American at Navy and named Most Valuable Oarsman. He completed his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated with Honors and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

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