Who is the Headquarters Doctor? The term implies an experienced military medicine doctor. For the first time, such a doctor was used by French doctors who treated soldiers and officers back in tsarist times. A special animal, an owl, was used as a doctor’s assistant. She was brought in to monitor her charges. That is why these assistants were often called “staff owls.” It is also worth knowing that in addition to the first doctors in the army, their deputies were also appointed. They also began to be called “headquarters doctors.” Later, military doctors separated and became a separate category within the medical forces