Dr.David Frienden

It is me Dr David Frieden, your Health Doctor. Dr David is the Senior Medical Officer now currently working at the third USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) a lead ship of her class of hospital ships in the United States Navy. He entered the Navy in 1978, qualified as both a Naval Flight Surgeon and a Submarine Medical Officer. Today, the Navy operates two dedicated hospital ships, the USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort. Both ships were converted from San Clemente-class supertankers. Mercy was on line in 1986 and Comfort launched in 1987. They're huge, equivalent to the height of a 10-story building and the length of three football fields.Both serve as 70,000-metric-ton symbols of how much America cares as a nation and as a people. If a tanker can be transformed into a symbol of hope, consider how the Mercy and Comfort transform the health-care professionals aboard.Our main primary purpose is to serve as a floating hospital that travels with the rest of the fleet, they have spent most of their service dispatched on humanitarian and disaster relief missions. And it is not just when disasters such tsunamis and earthquakes strike, but it is also ongoing humanitarian missions such as the Partnership for the Americas and the Pacific Partnership.And Our primary mission is to provide rapid, flexible, and mobile acute medical and surgical services to support Marine Corps Air/Ground Task Forces deployed ashore, Army and Air Force units deployed ashore, and naval amphibious task forces and battle forces afloat. Secondarily, she provides mobile surgical hospital service for use by appropriate US Government agencies in disaster or humanitarian relief or limited humanitarian care incident to these missions or peacetime military operations.