Every asset deployed…
not a Britfag, so i have never heard of this guy. He seems to be some sort of British Fauci/IndianJonesFagHybridChymera.
Not everyday you hear some Warzone doc mention
On performing fibroid surgery on one of Osama bin Laden's wives before the Sept. 11 attacks
I'd never heard of Osama bin Laden. I didn't know who he was and I knew nothing about him, but one of his wives came in with fibroids, and I was told that he was going to come in shortly afterwards because the surgeon before me had treated him for kidney stones. [I was told], "You may well be having to treat him," and [that] he was also a very important person in the Taliban regime. But he never came in, actually. And it's something I always think about — if I knew who he was or, you know … had had something to do with him, then maybe, perhaps, I could have stopped it all. But that's just fantasy, right?
so, this guy is definitely shady.
On how he feels about saving the life of someone who might be violent toward others or might work for ISIS
On finding a detonator in a shrapnel wound while performing a surgery in Syria
I was operating on a lady who … was the wife of somebody who was building bombs back in 2012. And the whole house had blown up, and she came into the hospital having had a severe injury to her left leg, and above the knee joint. She was exsanguinated — bleeding a lot through this hole. So we put a tourniquet on, which is the right thing to do, and then [stopped] the bleeding with the tourniquet and then took [her] to the operating theater where I prepared for surgery. And, making the incision … I felt this sort of round object, which felt a bit unusual. And so I got both fingers around it and just pulled it out. And suddenly the whole attitude in the operating theater just went silent. When [the] Syrian interpreter, standing next to me, shouted … "detonator!"
On how the COVID-19 pandemic has put conflicts in Syria and Yemen on hold
I'm hopeful in one respect that this pandemic at the moment, which has occurred throughout the whole world, will change people's minds to realizing that we are all human beings, that we're all here to help each other and we must stop killing each other. And the warring factions in Saudi and Yemen now have stopped fighting; the warring parties in Syria have stopped fighting; and I hope then that they will readjust to a new life. … They've stopped fighting because of the pandemic. … Everybody's self-isolating — the Saudis are self-isolating. … Nobody wants to go in. Everybody wants to save themselves. And so the wars have at this moment stopped. … This is a golden opportunity to say, "OK, we're all in it together. Let's not restart them. Let's talk. Let's communicate."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/824703205/war-doctor-says-treating-covid-19-is-like-fighting-an-invisible-enemy
https://archive.fo/ILaFL
David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’
Just as I was about to suture the pulmonary vein, the doors of the operating theatre burst open. I looked up and saw six fully armed men wearing black combat fatigues and headscarves storm into the room. They were Isis fighters, and the patient on the table was one of them. My heart lurched and I froze stock still. I felt a rush of adrenalin. The leader of the group came forward with his gun levelled at us.
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