curriculum to university of edinburg. if he were to be a doctor, you would study for 14 weeks. he could be an apprentice to a doctor and hope he knew what he was doing and then you could become a doctor. less than 2% of america's doctors have been trained at all. people took it upon themselves to be doctors. the governor of rhode island said that he was a doctor and he made house calls. a shoe maker comes close -- declare himself a doctor and treated people. madison was primitive. the revolutionary war, dr. benjamin rush, the country's chief surgeon told soldiers of if you get really sick, don't go to the hospital. it's the worst thing that could happen to you. >> how are you checking to make sure that you do not make a historical mistake? >> i checked a lot of different references. on thi read reference textbookso double check on sources of medical books that were printed and articles. i did a lot of research ought autopsies. the history of poison. poisoning was prominent in the 16th, 17th and 18th century. at that time,

a social anthropologist from he edinburg has written two cultural books on vietnam, one is called "after the massacre" andy has a new one out called "ghosts of war in vietnam" and he explained that religious that digs in vietnam differentiates between those who die in combat or even from accident, and those who die as a result of gross injustice, such as a massacre. the victims of unjust deaths, such as atrocities, are believed to, in his words, perpetually reexperience the agony of violent death. when i read that, i thought of r.d. miller and you know, it struck me suddenly that the same could be said for the living. now, throughout this investigation, a question kept nagging at me. why did the army go through all this trouble collecting thousands of pages of record on war crime allegations, of numbing and naming each case, and keeping files on them. if it wasn't to prosecute the wrong doers, and from everything i could see in terms of what happened to these cases, that couldn't have been a top priority. there wasn't much evidence or effort to identify or address conditions or policies