Movie: Voodoo Medics

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    About trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth in the medics who served with Australia's special forces in Afghanistan. From losing mates in the battlefield to treating horrifically injured Afghan kids in remote surgical theatres.

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    Voodoo Medics is an extraordinary video documentary about extraordinary elite Australian combat medics.

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