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nellis celebrates national Doctor’s Day
99th Air Base Wing
Staff Report
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — National Doctors’ Day was established to recognize physi- cians, their work, and their contributions to society and the community. National Doctors’ Day falls on March 30 each year.
Though the holiday was officially signed into U.S. law in the early 1990s by Pres- ident George H.W. Bush, observance of the day began in the early 1930s. Most civilian healthcare organizations utilize this day to advertise their great teams & awesome healthcare using ads in the paper/ other news releases.
Lt. col. Wesley Abadie
Otolaryngologist
Abadie is an Otolaryngologist as- signed to the 99th Medical Group. After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, he earned a degree of medicine from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
He was honored to be chosen as the flight surgeon for the USAF Weapons School, and also during this time de- ployed to Kirkuk, Iraq in 2006. Follow- ing this, he was selected to complete his
residency in Otolaryngology at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, and five years later returned to Nellis.
He led the Surgical Specialties Flight as flight commander and has performed more than 700 operations at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.
Currently, he is the Chief of Sur- gery. Abadie finds the most rewarding thing about military medicine is the contribution to the mission. Having a medical center on base adds tremen- dous mission support capability to the Nellis AFB community and allows active duty personnel and their fami- lies’ access to a full range of medical services that they might not even be able to receive downtown.
Also, the relationships with the pa- tients are very rewarding on a personal and professional level. The greatest com- pliment is when a cancer patient drops by in December simply to say thank you for taking care of them for another year and for giving them the opportunity to spend another Holiday season with their families.
col. Paul crawford
Professor of Family Medi- cine Program Director
Nellis’ Family Medicine Residency not only provides comprehensive patient care to Air Force beneficiaries, and provides 10 board-certified family physicians for the Air Force every year.
Crawford grew up in rural Pennsylvania and took advan- tage of the Air Force Health Professionals Scholarship to become a doctor. “I had a desire to show compassion to people,” Crawford said when asked what motivated him to
become a doctor.
“I have a constant
desire to improve — the care I provide, the way we do business, the education of our learn- ers,” he added.
Crawford’s most memorable or reward- ing experience as a
doctor is “Seeing peo- ple develop from wet-behind- the-ears medical students to resident physicians matur- ing into outstanding patient care providers and leaders to young faculty and, eventually, commanders and Residency Program Directors.
Crawford deployed to Kirkuk, Iraq, from 2005 to 2006, and completed short, humanitarian deployments to Peru and Paraguay. Addi- tionally, he has made multiple volunteer trips to Thailand, Cambodia and Ecuador.
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