Professor Kristaps Keggi recalls his service as a field doctor in Vietnam

Keggi, a professor emeritus at Yale School of Medicine and pioneering hip surgeon, served in the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade from 1965 to 1966.
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An alumnus of Yale College and the Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Kristaps Keggi currently serves as a professor emeritus and senior research scientist of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at YSM. Keggi was in Vietnam from 1965 to 1966, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon in a mobile surgical hospital in the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.

In this video, Keggi recounts his service and the significance of Veterans Day celebrations at Yale.