An Army nurse felt the Pentagon shake on 9/11 and ran toward the impact with no supplies. 75 people got treated at the triage point she set up on the lawn. Patricia Horoho is an American hero.
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…
During a training exercise, Army Sgt. Zachariah Clark relied on his expertise as a combat medic to lead a life-saving rescue and triage effort after two fellow soldiers were mauled by a bear in the Alaskan wilderness.