Dr. Mark Prysi tells the history of Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington. D.C.

1. Walter Reed Army Medical CenterThe Walter
Reed Hospital, or The Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, until recently, was the army's
main hospital base for soldiers and military
personnel. Most treated at Walter Reed were
soldiers who had been injured in war and
were in need of serious medical attention.
Walter Reed Hospital was a place soldiers
could be taken out directly from battle, and
brought to receive the proper, often life
deciding, treatment they needed.!
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History of Walter Reed Hospital!
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Walter Reed LogoThe Walter Reed Hospital
served as the main place in the United States
to treat wounded soldiers from 1909 to only a
few years ago, in 2011. Located in
Washington D. C., The Walter Reed Hospital
served over 150 thousand soldiers and their
families for over one hundred years. The
hospital served both active duty soldiers, as
well as retired veterans, and both category's
families.!
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Walter Reed Hospital was named after an
army physician, Walter Reed who lived from
1851 to 1902, seven years before its erection.
Walter Reed was acclaimed to have led the
medical team who discovered that yellow
fever, a disease that plagued soldiers abroad,
and different localities around the world, was
actually spread by mosquitos, and not, as
previously imagined, by direct contact.!
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Wikipedia Discrepency!
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As Wikipedia would have it, the Walter Reed
Hospital boasted 5,500 (five thousand, five hundred) rooms and was able to take care of 80
patients per room (eighty being number of beds they were declared to have per room). Though
these numbers must need to be reviewed, that would have it that Walter Reed Hospital had a
capacity for half a million people, which is actually 5/6 of the current population of Washington
D.C.!
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Regardless of this information being out online, the Walter Reed Hospital was still huge, and
covered 28 acres of space. More accurate reports show Walter Reed to serve more than
150,ooo patients, and to admit about 16,000 patients per year. These numbers are all from
military personnel, active, retired, and from all branches of the United States Military!
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2. Dr. Mark Prysi and Walter Reed Hospital!
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Around the time Vietnam was at its thickest, Dr. Mark Prysi was just a young boy. Nevertheless
his father was a military man, and when Dr. Prysi sustained an injury while using farm
equipment, he was taken in at Walter Reed to receive his treatment!
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Dr. Mark Prysi's experience in Walter Reed, seeing the critically wounded soldiers occupying the
hospital beds next to him