This film chronicles the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda (USUHS), the nation's only military medical school; the education received by many of our military physicians and their careers--often encompassing the battlefields of our nation's conflicts.  It also follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover and “bounce back” from the loss of a leg.

Excerpt from Director Terry Sanders' production statement:  "For me, 'Fighting for Life' is a portrait of the compassion, skill, dedication and bravery of military doctors and nurses, and the courage, dignity and determination of the wounded to survive, to heal and, in the words of Army Specialist Crystal Davis, severely injured by an improvised explosive device (IED), to “bounce back.”  It is also a meditation on the sorrow of war."

On Memorial Day Weekend (May 23/25) "Fighting for Life" will be broadcast nationally in prime time on most PBS stations.   Information with specific dates and times of broadcast for each state is available.