He pulled out a much-read letter from one of his former students at the camp clinic, where he is now the chief instructor of volunteer medics.

The role of volunteer medic was one Ms. Idris had found after some painful setbacks, her family said.

I have Crohn's disease and worked in many countries as a volunteer medic.

Ask for a volunteer native medic to travel to Sector General to assist or, if necessary, to take charge of the treatment.

Porter recruited volunteer medics to parachute into crash sites to aid injured crewmen.

Ignoring her, the volunteer medics set the injured woman in a chair.

Wounded in Afghanistan while serving in the 1980's as a volunteer medic with Muslim forces fighting the Soviet occupation of that country.

Teams of volunteer medics coming from abroad are often needed to support the local capacity to address the most severe cases, which can be extremely challenging even for senior maxillofacial surgeons.

Among those shot dead was a 25-year-old volunteer medic, Kamonkate Akahad, better known simply as Nurse Kate.

In 1937, Gresham served as a volunteer medic for the Loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.