February 8, 2008
A Gentle Man in a Brutal Place
A boy lies on a metal gurney, his arms held tightly down as a doctor inserts a tube into his narrow chest to suck blood from his lungs. No anesthetics are available, explains the narrator, as a hand-held camera records the 6-year-old screaming in pain. The war in Iraq has overwhelmed the meager resources of Baghdad's most dangerous hospital, where neighborhood battles ensure that dozens of people will arrive every day with shrapnel lodged in their bodies, limbs blown off, or worse.
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