Chapter 10 Summary

Chapter 10 focuses first on Ugly, the 4077th's anesthesiologist. He is widely regarded as excellent and consequently serves to ease the burden of pain on soldiers and thereby the stress of doctors. Ugly works harder than anyone else in the camp, as he is constantly needed and morally bound to aid. He also despises a nearby British surgical unit that is extremely tight-fisted with morphine, often giving patients tea which leaks through their internal wounds and leaves them to be tied up by the 4077th.

Hawkeye is also under serious stress and decides to talk to Dago Red about his feeling relatively crazy. He then sleeps for a long period of time, and is woken up again for surgery on Captain William Logan of the Mississippi National Guard. Hawkeye messes up the surgery partially, however. Nine days later, Logan is desperately ill and Hawkeye...