Army Battalion Surgeon Dr. Samuel Kalush - Bronze Star and Silver Star

Dr. Samuel Kalush graduated from medical school in 1966.  He interned at Milwaukee Coutny General in 1966-67 and then Uncle Sam came calling.   After a month of learning to be a medical officer he was sent to Vietnam as a battaliion surgeon overseeing a squad of 7 medics.  He recounts his experiences in multiple firefights and what he learned from those expericences.  Dr. Kalush went on to have a distinguished career as a hearth surgeon and cardiologist in Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida.  For his actions in those firefights he received, unusual of r a surgeon,  the Bronze Star and a Silver Star.