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Nov 8, 2022 · Ray Wiss was 19 when he flunked out of his first year at university. He looked around for a job, but couldn’t find anything that suited his interests. He turned to the infantry, where he...
- Janis Cleugh
Wiss went to Afghanistan for the first time in 2007-2008, and did a second tour of duty in 2009. He wrote two books on his experiences – 'FOB Doc: A Doctor On the Front Lines in Afghanistan - A...
Captain Ray Wiss, a Canadian Forces physician, kept a diary of his experiences in and around Kandahar from November 2007 to January 2008. The following two entries describe part of his time "outside the wire," working on the front lines.
Oct 11, 2011 · He has been described as “the most influential emergency physician in Canada in the past decade.” Dr. Wiss, now Captain Wiss, arrived in Afghanistan in early November of 2007 and returned in 2009.
Feb 22, 2011 · In 2007, Dr. Ray Wiss did something remarkable: he left a successful emergency medicine practice and volunteered to deploy with the Canadian Forces to Afghanistan.
- Major Aaron Saguil
- 2011
Captain Ray Wiss is a hero. An emergency-room physician in his late forties, Wiss has twice volunteered to leave his practice and family to participate in four-month rotations on Canadian Forces’ forward operating bases in Afghanistan’s dangerous Kandahar province.
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Nov 24, 2009 · Beginning in November 2007, for the next three months, he spent nearly his entire tour in combat, treating the severe injuries of Canadians and Afghans. We read of his trying to cope with the ‘terror and boredom’ of front-line soldier life.
