ABC News: Rare Look Inside Baghdad Emergency Room

[leftchick]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=694808

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Jamal Enad, a second-year surgical resident at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital, said he has seen firsthand the effects of the increased violence.

"It was a very bad week, the last week," he said.

Enad is one of three doctors and six nurses working the day shift in the emergency room. They have been inundated with patients of late, since Yarmouk is where most Iraqi victims of insurgent attacks in Baghdad are taken for treatment.

Each day, Enad and the other doctors have been treating twisted limbs and pulling shrapnel from the wounded. The families of the victims crowd the ER, waiting in anguish.

Yarmouk is a teaching hospital, where doctors come to learn. They say what they are learning most clearly is how to deal with victims of insurgent attacks — how to recognize instantly who will die, and who might be saved.

It is experience Enad said he would rather do without.

[MisterP]

1. they're actually lucky the Imperial troops didn't machine-gun the ambulan-

ces and storm the hospital itself to prevent "terrorist lies about casualties" liked they did in Falluja.

[leftchick]

2. yep! and

it would be nice if they had pointed out that this would not be happening and getting worse if not for the Occupation. And how that hospital used to be one of The medical learning institutions in the Middle East. It is really not a good article. After I posted it I went back to finish it and there was nothing else :shrug: !

I imagine the reporter for this sitting in his Baghdad hotel on his cell phone interviewing the doctor. The photo is from and Iraqi stringer and he gets more facts from him. This is the kind of reporting we get from western news sources these days. :eyes:

[frictionlessO]

3. The question should be why is it so rare to get a glimse in the ER???

Why on earth would that be??:sarcasm: