Dr. Steven Wheeler

"Dealing with multiple casualties is experience I have now," says Dr. Steven Wheeler, an anesthesiologist with the Calgary Health Region, based in Calgary's Peter Lougheed Hospital. "I'll be able to use it if there's an unfortunate situation where disaster strikes."

When asked about important lessons brought back to Canada from their service in the field, Evans, Wheeler and Lindsay all mentioned the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with a variety of highly skilled specialists on the same cases.

"I was already in Afghanistan once, for 56 days in 2004," said Calgary anesthesiologist Dr. Steven Wheeler, one of today's participants.