Perspectives...by
Evelyn Marshak
Did you know that two of the
doctors treating the Boston Marathon Bombing patients at Boston's Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center were Israeli?
Two of the seven doctors have had abundant experience treating victims
of terror because these medical personnel are Israelis.
Doctors and medical staff at Boston hospitals found
themselves facing the horrific aftermath of the bombings and realized that they
were rather well prepared in part by
lessons shared by Israeli Medical personnel.
Terror medicine is something doctors have learned a lot about over the
years. The war in Afghanistan, Iraq and
the earthquake in Haiti gave many doctors in United States, on-the-job-training
in treating bombing and other kinds of terror patients.
Dr. Avi Rivkind heads the surgery
and trauma unit at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem Haddah Hospital and has
treated more than half of Israel's bombing victims. With his personal experience he helped rewrite the book on treating victims
of bombing.
Rivkin is revered for refusing to
give up on the most hopeless trauma
patients such as a soldier that was shot through the heart and
pronounced dead. Somehow, Rivkin revived
him!
Dr. Kevin Tabb, President and CEO
of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center received his medical degree from
Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Tabb
said, “Unfortunately, I have had a lot of experience with these types of
injuries, after years of treating people injured in terror attacks.”
The director of the emergency
room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is Dr. David Talmor, also an
Israeli physician.
Dr. Alasdair Conn,
chief of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital told reporters that his staff was better
prepared because a few years ago, some
Israeli doctors travelled to Boston
to help upgrade Massachusetts General's disaster response plan. Conn noted that, “We in the United States
have had little experience in urban explosions.
The Israelis, unfortunately had the experience; they transferred it to
us... and this worked well for us.”
I think I speak for many
Americans who waited to do something but too far away from Boston to rush into
the city on that horrific day. There was
little one could do in a direct way, but
as Jews, we can take great pride in the Jewish doctors' medical skills in both Israel and in Boston; they have done something indirectly
to ease the pain of the injured.
Words of Wisdom
It is a man’s own mind…not the enemy or foe
that leads him to evil ways.
(Buddha)
Crafted by Merle
Baird-Kerr...June 29, 2013
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*** Today, August 21, the
following “update”
was published in our local newspaper:
Bombing suspect was shot in the
face
Newly released court documents describe the extent of injuries to the
surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, including multiple gunshot
wounds to his face and a skull fracture.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s injuries were described by Dr. Stephen Ray Odom
during a legal proceeding at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
three days after Tsarnaev was captured in a boat in a back yard in the Boston
suburb of Watertown. A transcript of the testimony was
unsealed Monday.
Odom, a trauma surgeon who treated Tsarnaev, said the most severe
injury was from a bullet that appeared to enter through the left inside of his
mouth and exit the lower section of his face on the left side. He described it as a “high-powered injury”
that resulted in a skull-base fracture, injuries to his middle ear, the skull
base , the pharynx and mouth. Odom said
Tsarnaev also had wounds to his lower extremities and bone injuries to his left
hand.
Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to numerous charges in the April 15th bombing ~
including using a weapon of mass destruction ~ and faces a potential death
sentence if convicted. The twin bombings
near the finish line of the marathon killed 3 people and injured more than 260.
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