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Dr. Mohamed Mostafa

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa: I remember I was putting in a chest drain into a man who had a collapsed lung, and I felt someone grab my ankle. And it was because there was so many bodies, there was a woman underneath the bed that had half a leg missing who was holding onto my ankle. And she was asking me to help her. And I’m already halfway through the procedure with him that will save his life, and I’ve not even assessed how to know if she’s got other injuries as well, so I continued putting the chest drain in him. And she bled out on the floor, holding my ankle. And you know that’s been very difficult for me to process.

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