Patricia Ferguson - Vietnam

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00:08 - Early nurses' training and joining the CMF
01:48 - 1st Military Hospital (Yeronga)
03:22 - Telling the family
05:06 - Going to Vietnam
06:39 - Arrival in Vietnam
08:28 - A dawning realisation
09:23 - 1st Australian Field Hospital (Vung Tau)
11:19 - Receiving dust-offs
14:45 - Musical relief
15:36 - Eight-hour shifts
17:12 - Treating badly wounded soldiers
19:02 - Graham Edwards
20:59 - 28 February 1970
23:01 - Difficulty of adjustment to civilian work
24:53 - Knowing the patients
26:19 - Time off in Vung Tau
28:10 - Meeting Denis Gibbons
29:24 - Denis Gibbons' problems with adjustment on return to Australia
30:24 - United Press International, Saigon
31:31 - A marriage proposal and engagement
32:53 - Return to Australia
33:41 - Photographic record of 1st Australian Field Hospital
34:26 - A privileged time
36:13 - Media coverage pf the anti-war protest movement
38:00 - PTSD
40:11 - The Welcome Home Parade
41:44 - Praise for the medics