Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-24760016-20140402180339

The medic being Ishmael makes the sense to a degree but why would they keep medic's face hidden in this game and have him in trailers and such to still leave a new character's face and identity hidden. He'd have to be a recgonizable previous character used in previous MGS for Kojima to keep his face so hidden. It doesn't make sense to keep him out of sight and he's just a new character.

So to me, the big secret is still; who is the medic/Ishmael if they are the same person? But as pointed out earlier, it's likely this Ishmael character has nothing to do anyway we saw in the helicopter on GZ since this is 9 years later and I doubt anyone elses injuries (especially facial ones) would be in the hospital for 9 years with Big Boss.