About a month after arriving in Vietnam, Hill stepped on a buried land mine that blew up and injured his left arm and leg. The medics didn’t have any painkillers, so they had to dig out the shrapnel and give Hill over 200 stitches without any numbing medicine. The pain was excruciating and left Hill with post-traumatic stress disorder. To this day, he hates needles and isn’t crazy about nurses and doctors. But he likes Dr. Subramanian, whom he sees as a brother in arms.