M*A*S*H

Season 1 Episode 12

Dear Dad

Air date: Dec 17, 1972

Medical Cases in This Episode

These are the patient stories worth unpacking. Open any case for the real-world medicine, what the episode shows, what it leaves out, and source-backed context.

1 case identified

Case 1

Front-Line Wounded Soldier

Hawkeye flies to the front line to help a wounded soldier.

Episode shows
Hawkeye flies to the front line to help a wounded soldier.
Clinical takeaway
Front-Line Wounded Soldier is included because episode evidence supports a concrete wartime trauma, surgery, or medical ethics scenario.
Accuracy 3.6/5front-line-wounded-soldierbattlefield-medicinetrauma

About the Episode

Hawkeye writes home, describing Christmas in Korea: Radar ships a jeep home, a piece at a time; Henry gives the monthly lecture on sex, with the aid of figure A and figure B; Trapper helps deliver a calf; Klinger and Frank get into a fight, but Father Mulcahy smoothes things over; Hawkeye and Trapper sabotage Margaret's tent; Hawkeye flies to the front line dressed as Santa, to help a wounded soldier.

Medical Relevance

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The Medical Verdict

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