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On the recordApril 9, 2008
Has the intensity of these two wars that are going on and the trauma of the wounded and injured--physically, psychologically, both--has that, do you think, helped the whole sense of mission?
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Questioning the impact of wars on the sense of mission in healthcare.

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