YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - NEW DOC: ‘American Doctor’ exposes 'the actual facts’ of what’s happening inside Gaza’s hospitals
A new documentary film, “American Doctor,” takes us inside Gaza’s hospitals with three U.S. physicians: Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. Dr. Perlmutter said they participated in the project in order to “promulgate the truth” and “advance the actual facts coming out of what our American tax dollars were doing.” Dr. Ahmad says doctors in Gaza face immensely difficult situations when waves of injured people come in. “You have to sit there and make this decision of, who are you going to try to resuscitate… it’s something that caused a significant amount of moral injury for all of us, but I would caution and say Palestinian doctors have been making those decisions every day for almost three…
According to Dr. Thaer Ahmad, what specific moral challenge do doctors face in Gaza when waves of injured people arrive at the hospitals?
Dr. Ahmad explains that doctors must make the difficult decision of whom to attempt to resuscitate, a process that causes a significant amount of moral injury. He noted that Palestinian doctors have been making these decisions every day for almost three years.
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What was Dr. Mark Perlmutter's stated motivation for participating in the "American Doctor" documentary project?
Dr. Perlmutter stated that they participated in the project in order to "promulgate the truth" and to "advance the actual facts coming out of what our American tax dollars were doing."
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Which U.S. physicians are featured in the documentary "American Doctor" regarding the situation in Gaza's hospitals?
The three U.S. physicians featured in the documentary are Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa.
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