Reflections of Service in Afghanistan: Dr. Stephen Sample, MD

Dr. Steve Sample and Dr. Torree McGowan reflect on the differences in their deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, drawing on their shared experience as emergency medicine residents at SAUSHEC and their overlap in Balad. Dr. Stephen Sample, MD graduated from University of Louisville Medical School 2005, and completed his emergency medicine residency at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) in San Antonio, Texas, in 2008.  He deployed to Balad in 2009 and Bagram, Afghanistan in 2011.  He is currently an emergency medicine physician and Dubois County  EMS medical director in Jasper Indiana. He has been married to his wife Tobi for 24 years next month.  His daughter Haley is 23, working at Stitch Fix in SF, and his other daughter Riley is almost 21.  She is a junior at Indiana University, pre-med. He is a frequent guest on MSNBC with Brian Williams and has a large Twitter following at @supermansings.  His dogs Lucy the Newfoundland and Charley an asshole of a Lab/golden mix are the stars of his Twitter.  Support the show