How many surgeons do you think the Iraq insurgency employs?
I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to describe the miracle of what we’ve seen the last few days. The experience has been overwhelming in many ways: the severity of the wounds we’ve seen, the intensity of the ER and operating rooms, the delicate care in the intensive care unit. My first day here I watched a patient very nearly die from a gunshot wound to the chest and a surgeon place his finger on the pulmonary artery to keep the blood from draining a life. I saw the surgical team refuse to give up on that patient when many would have thought it hopeless. I very literally watched a life saved and realized the miracle that was being performed through the hands, hearts and minds of these care givers.
Check out Blink Into Focus and read for yourself what happens at Ibn Sina, Baghdad’s coalition trauma hospital, where lives are saved every day. This war is about builders and destroyers. I leave it up to you to glean which side represents the engineers, scientists, doctors and content creators of society and which side represents the blind, shuffling, angry world eaters who want to lead us all to an earth that is actually hell.