How does the Civil War give insights into plastic surgery?

Published: March 22, 2007, 4:11 p.m.

b'A Q&A with Dr. Joseph Rosen about Polytrauma\\n\\nDr. Rosen is a plastic surgeon at DHMC who treats patients around the world including soldiers injured in Iraq. His specialties include nerve repair and human-machine interfaces, microsurgery and transplantation of limbs, and telemedicine and informatics. He was an organizer of the 2006 Polytrauma Conference at Dartmouth College, is a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at DMS, and is a consultant to the military.\\n\\nThis is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:\\nhttp://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/faculty_focus.php'