A shocking film This is a film which was shown to doctors and other medical staff to get them to volunteer to go to Vietnam. It's the most bad taste commercial you will ever see, and you really have to see it to believe it.
Throughout the film there is a voice-over telling us about how great it is to work in an army hospital in Vietnam during the war. The voice-over is telling us how great the scenery in Vietnam is, and how good it is to work in the army hospitals which are air-conditioned and very modern. He's also explaining how many different kind of exotic wounds and burnings the doctor will meet when working in Vietnam, stuff a doctor never will meet when working in a normal practice in USA.
While the voice is telling us this, we also see some of the badly wounded soldiers getting treatment. In close ups we see all kind of wounded American soldiers getting treatment. Among other things we see a guy who nearly had his head shot off by a grenade miraculously getting fixed by the doctors "so in only a few days he'll be ready to go back in combat". We also see a soldier who's been hit in the head by a big bullet which the doctors somehow manage to pull out, and a afro-American soldier who has been badly burnt by a napalm bomb, getting treatment. And it's all real documentary footage, and very, very ugly to look at.
This is absolutely not for the faint at heart. I saw the film in a small film club, and though the audience thought they new what they were going to see, and were used to see all kinds of gore, more than half of the audience left the screening room.
If you see this film, it will haunt you forever and make you lose confidence in the judgment of medical authority.