Summary: Interview With Doctor Eric Holt
UMUC Course BEHS320
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(Interview with Lt Col Eric Holt) Gregory Leach 18 Nov 21
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) and Doctor Eric Holt is a highly decorated combat medic and warrior who has faithfully served his country for over 15 year. He attended both West Point and Harvard Medical School where he trained to be a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and an Anesthesiologist. I had the pleasure of working with him at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), FL for two year before his move onto his work in Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) as a forward deployed medical officer assigned to classified missions in the Pacific theater and Afghanistan area of …show more content…
During the flight Lt Col Holt began vomiting, alerted the medical team that he had a high probability of an intercranial hemorrhage. Once his life threatening injuries were stabilized at the FOB he was flown to Bagram Air Base, then to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. It was in Germany where he underwent spinal fusion surgery to stabilize his fractured neck. After a week in Germany, Lt Col Holt was on his way stateside to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. where he would undergo five additional surgeries to correct his facial fractures and nerve damage in his mouth. In the course of this initial treatment Lt Col Holt was in and out sedation and a medically induced coma but remained upbeat and optimistic, but admitted he (personal interviews and communication, November 1-8, 2012) “felt like I was run over by a
Applied Final Project
(Interview with Lt Col Eric Holt) Gregory Leach 18 Nov 21
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) and Doctor Eric Holt is a highly decorated combat medic and warrior who has faithfully served his country for over 15 year. He attended both West Point and Harvard Medical School where he trained to be a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and an Anesthesiologist. I had the pleasure of working with him at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), FL for two year before his move onto his work in Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) as a forward deployed medical officer assigned to classified missions in the Pacific theater and Afghanistan area of …show more content…
During the flight Lt Col Holt began vomiting, alerted the medical team that he had a high probability of an intercranial hemorrhage. Once his life threatening injuries were stabilized at the FOB he was flown to Bagram Air Base, then to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. It was in Germany where he underwent spinal fusion surgery to stabilize his fractured neck. After a week in Germany, Lt Col Holt was on his way stateside to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. where he would undergo five additional surgeries to correct his facial fractures and nerve damage in his mouth. In the course of this initial treatment Lt Col Holt was in and out sedation and a medically induced coma but remained upbeat and optimistic, but admitted he (personal interviews and communication, November 1-8, 2012) “felt like I was run over by a