Voodoo Medics

Apr 12 2020 5
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Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.

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