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Rockport doctor ready for Iraq duty
by Outspoken on Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:04 am
Rockport doctor ready for Iraq duty
By Meg Haskell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
ROCKPORT, Maine — For Rockport urologist Dr. Lars Ellison, Friday was more than just the end of another workweek. It was the end of normalcy, at least for the next few months.
The 43-year-old Ellison, a major in the United States Army Reserve, is headed today to Fort Benning, Ga., where he’ll prepare for deployment to Iraq. He expects to be gone until the end of October.
This will be Ellison’s second deployment since he joined the Reserve in 2001, shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks that thrust the U.S. military into high gear.
His first deployment was a three-month tour in 2005 at the Army’s regional medical center in Landstuhl, Germany, where soldiers who have been seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are treated.
"Now I’ll go to Iraq," he said. The Army hospital where Ellison will work is on a major military base and responsible for treating all 150,000 American troops on the ground in Iraq, a similar number of private security forces and any coalition troops in need of care, he said.
Ellison said he’s likely to be treating some of the same conditions he sees in his practice at Penobscot Bay Urology, where he has worked for a little more than a year.
For example, "there’s a huge problem with kidney stones," he said. "In that hot, dry environment, despite their best efforts, probably everybody’s going around a little bit chronically dehydrated."
Dehydration can set the stage for the formation of kidney stones and the debilitating pain that typically accompanies them. Ellison said he can help sufferers, men and women, in a variety of ways, including blasting the stones into tiny particles with a laser so they can be washed out of the urinary tract.
Cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidney and testicles also will likely be among the conditions he diagnoses. American troops diagnosed with cancer would be evacuated and treated in the United States, he said.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166992&zoneid=500
By Meg Haskell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
ROCKPORT, Maine — For Rockport urologist Dr. Lars Ellison, Friday was more than just the end of another workweek. It was the end of normalcy, at least for the next few months.
The 43-year-old Ellison, a major in the United States Army Reserve, is headed today to Fort Benning, Ga., where he’ll prepare for deployment to Iraq. He expects to be gone until the end of October.
This will be Ellison’s second deployment since he joined the Reserve in 2001, shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks that thrust the U.S. military into high gear.
His first deployment was a three-month tour in 2005 at the Army’s regional medical center in Landstuhl, Germany, where soldiers who have been seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are treated.
"Now I’ll go to Iraq," he said. The Army hospital where Ellison will work is on a major military base and responsible for treating all 150,000 American troops on the ground in Iraq, a similar number of private security forces and any coalition troops in need of care, he said.
Ellison said he’s likely to be treating some of the same conditions he sees in his practice at Penobscot Bay Urology, where he has worked for a little more than a year.
For example, "there’s a huge problem with kidney stones," he said. "In that hot, dry environment, despite their best efforts, probably everybody’s going around a little bit chronically dehydrated."
Dehydration can set the stage for the formation of kidney stones and the debilitating pain that typically accompanies them. Ellison said he can help sufferers, men and women, in a variety of ways, including blasting the stones into tiny particles with a laser so they can be washed out of the urinary tract.
Cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidney and testicles also will likely be among the conditions he diagnoses. American troops diagnosed with cancer would be evacuated and treated in the United States, he said.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=166992&zoneid=500
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