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The war zone creeps back in unexpected places. Running across Fort Bliss, Texas, earlier this year to get to the gym, Mark Jackson, D.O., an Army reservist, recalled suddenly stopping and thinking, “Has this area been cleared?”

Or at a supermarket that reminded him of the danger of crowds overseas.

“I was shell-shocked,” Jackson, a part-time emergency room physician at UF Health Shands Hospital , said in an interview about his 10-week medical deployment to war-torn Iraq and Syria starting late in 2017. “I mean, I wasn’t normal around people. I couldn’t be next to somebody. It was bad.”

It’s said that medicine is the only beneficiary of war. Jackson embraces that idea. So, he brought back more than the anguished memories of treating the worst battlefield trauma. He returned with lessons for the latest crop of UF Health emergency medicine residents.