A friend with HBO sent me these two links to excerpts from their upcoming 29 JAN program "Baghdad Hospital, Indside the Red Zone"
I only got to see life within the rarified confines of Balad airbase, and once the 86th CSH in Baghdad, so this is a perspective of Iraq I did not have. I will say that I heard some of my patients say things very similar to those portrayed in the clips.
Clip 1: Ambulance pickup at a market after a suicide bombing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMzO8x0QxM
Clip 2: Introduction in the hospital
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkVMm6AgStg
I think that the clips were filmed in 2007. Hopefully we see less of thes attacks as time goes by. In the first clip when I heard the line "Only the children playing outside." I could feel a sense of a parent's worry for their own children above one's own safety, yet also a feeling of guilt in knowing they were someone's children.
26 January 2008
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God be with them. It's a horrible situation.
The pain and confusion on the woman's face in the second clip is overwhelming. No matter what the issues are, there has to be a better way to solve political, religious, and social "problems" than blowing up children.
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