NBC News examines "Wounds of War"

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News is planning a major multiplatform push for a weeklong series on the medical care of soldiers wounded in the Iraq war.

"Wounds of War," reported by chief health/science correspondent Robert Bazell, will air each day Monday through Friday on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" along with an additional report on the weekend news and at least one piece on "Today" and an hourlong MSNBC documentary in late March.

The reports take an in-depth look at the state of U.S. military medical care in Iraq, which has an amazing -- 96% -- survival rate for the wounded soldiers who make it alive to combat hospitals. Bazell toured three hospitals -- two Army and one Air Force -- talked to medivac personnel and even flew on the U.S. Air Force C-17 jets that serve as airborne intensive care units ferrying the wounded from Iraq to American military hospitals in Germany and then to the U.S.

The reports include interviews with the doctors, nurses and medics treating the wounded as well as some of the wounded themselves.

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