Amazing article about doctor heroically getting involved in Syria.
The Shadow Doctors
The underground race to spread medical knowledge as the Syrian regime erases it
The New Yorker
By Ben Taub
Thousands of physicians once worked in Aleppo, formerly Syria’s most populous city, but the assault has resulted in an exodus of ninety-five per cent of them to neighboring countries and to Europe... Despite the onslaught, doctors and international N.G.O.s have forged an elaborate network of underground hospitals throughout Syria...
Shortly before Christmas in 1993, Nott was working as a general surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, in London, when he saw a television report from Sarajevo... The next day, Nott volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières, and on Christmas Eve he left for a three-month stay in Sarajevo, where he worked at a facility that had been so severely damaged by shelling and sniper fire that people called it Swiss Cheese Hospital.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...war-on-doctors
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