January 30, 2008

Iraqi Doctor Turned Journalism Student Sees His Life Transformed

By Beth McMurtrie

A boy lies on a metal gurney, his arms held down tightly as a doctor inserts a tube into his narrow chest to suck blood from his lungs. No anesthetic was 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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