“I was in Baghdad as a volunteer surgeon, but operating was difficult. The city’s hospitals had treated many wounded during the bombing, depleting emergency stores. Following the arrival of the Americans, much of the remainder had been looted, the pillage continuing even as staff tried to deal with arriving casualties. Operating rooms resembled charnel-houses, with discarded surgeons’ gloves, crusted dressings and bloody clothes caked underfoot.”
Medicine
An Interview With Jonathan Kaplan
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
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by Allen Rucker
March 25th, 2007
From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden onset, they call it.
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