Then I found myself in college and finished it pretty well, did well enough to apply to medical school later on. I wanted to just finish school and kind of be done with that. No, I didn't even particularly want to go to college. ![]() People are like, "I wanted to be a doctor my whole life." It's very cool that you ended up here when you realized this was something you had a passion for. It's very unique than what you typically hear. It's so funny to hear the history of how you got here because it's very different. And I went to medical school at VCU in Richmond, and then I went to the University of Kentucky for residency, and I did fellowship down in Dallas at Baylor University Medical Center, and then I came here. Hopefully, none of us are going to combat, but I think that these are lessons that can be very useful.Īnd then after I came back, I started looking into what I wanted to do, and that's when I decided to go to medical school. And so all of the stuff that we're going to talk about today is stuff that we learned in preparing to go over to combat. I was a reservist in the military, wound up serving in Iraq as an infantryman. ![]() I kind of got my start in all this, I went to college, didn't really think about becoming a doctor. I'm the trauma medical director here at Centra at Lynchburg General Hospital. But before we get there, I want these two wonderful experts in this area to just tell us a little bit about yourself, and then we'll dig into this program that we have access to. The class is called Stop the Bleed, and there's so many whys behind this class. And we are going to be talking about a class today, which we are not going to instruct to you today, but we're going to talk to you about the importance of this class. ![]() William Weber, who is our trauma medical director, as well as Sara Beth Dinwiddie, who is our trauma program director. My name is Cami Smith and I am here with Dr.
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