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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gaza Doctor Describes the Chaos of the Hospital' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-13. Transcript available.

Dr. Raman, thanks for joining me today, man.
Thanks for having me, especially on short notice.
Yeah, I appreciate it, man.
We'll just get right into it.
You did a service in, you're a doctor?
Yes.
Okay, and you just did a service in Gaza?
And how did they say it there?
They say Gaza, but you can say Gaza.
Okay.
I was saying Gaza when I was there.
Yeah?
Yeah, it worked out.
Cool.
I came back.
What hospital were you stationed at over there?
So Nasser Hospital.
Okay.
You know, you probably heard on the news that it's the last functioning
hospital in Gaza.
And it truly is.
There's other smaller hospitals, but they're really not functioning at a scale
of a hospital.
So when I got there, basically those other two told everyone at Nasser,
hey, there's this guy, he's an interventional radiologist, give him all your
cases.
Because they come down like once a week.
So if there's a patient who needs a procedure, they need to wait seven days for
essentially.
As for like, for example, the ER doctors, especially the ones we came with,
they typically do eight or 12-hour shifts in America.
So when they got there, the energy was high.
They're like, oh, we're going to do, you know, a 12-hour shift.
And then the locals just laughed.
They're like, no, you're not.
You're going to do a four-hour shift because you're not going to make it more
than that.
And it turns out they were right.
Really?
It's just so intense.
It's the most intense traumatic experience I don't think any physician can
understand.
I would say take the most experienced trauma surgeon, you know, in Baltimore,
which is like one
of the biggest trauma centers in America and put them in Gaza.
And it's like child's play compared to what's going on in Gaza.
You're talking about like an influx of like 400 patients in like four hours
with 30 casualties
on arrival, 30 headshots on arrival, 30 critical mass shots on arrival.
And then like everything in between women, children, elderly men, young boys.
And it's just like, what, how the heck do you triage all this?
And that was every day, man.
So it took a mental toll.
What's that first moment that you noticed?
Like, oh my God, this is a lot.
Yeah.
So the first day we got there was actually pretty chill the Friday, but then
the Saturday
they had the MCI, it's called a mass casualty incident.
And they basically pull a fire alarm.
I was like, what the hell is that?
Oh, every doctor come down to the ER to try to help.
And so I was like, okay.
So went downstairs, got in there.
It's just like brain matter coming out of people.
There's guts coming out of people's abdomens.
There's people's legs blown off and someone's carrying it in next to the, you
know, one of
the family members bringing it in for the doctors and, you know, they think you
can just
reattach it and it's just like absolute chaos.
There's family members, security in the hospitals trying to push out the family
members so the
doctors and nurses can take care of the patients.
It's absolute chaos.
And then us American physicians are just like looking at each other like, what
is going on
here?
And, you know, that was, that was, that's when reality hit and I was like, okay,
this must
be like a one-off and it just kept happening every day and sometimes multiple
times a day.
But when we were there, we were staying on the balcony looking on, you know,
during our break
time as, as physicians and boom, you just see this giant explosion, your, your
drums are
rumbling and it's just like, who just died there?
Was it a Hamas guy?
It was like a family, right?
So then you go down to the ER and there's like 30 patients that show up and you
ask them
like, you know, what happened?
Oh, the shrapnel injuries from an explosion.
You know, some lady has like a, a high speed velocity, you know, piece of shrapnel
that went
toward a belly or a leg has some of after emerging surgery.
Some people goes right through their skull and so, um, and then you realize
every single
explosion and it was happening about every 30 minutes in Han Yunus at that time,
I would
say, um, from my experience, you realize every 30 minutes there's an explosion
and people are dying.
Right?
So even if every single one of those explosions was Hamas, why is there 30, 50
patients coming
in, you know, routinely?
So that's what's interesting.
When I say mass casualty incident, we're talking about an influx of like 400
patients, but it
doesn't stop between the hour.
Right?
So even at nighttime, there's patients chronically consistently coming in and
all night.
Right?
So some of us had night shifts.
Basically we would help out the night team.
Our job was just to help out.
Right?
Like I was in the ER, I was in the OR, the operating room to, to on the floors.
I was sometimes being a nurse, just helping out getting IV access and little
kids.
So we were just everywhere trying to help out anywhere.
What type of injuries were you guys seeing come in?
Like what, like, what was it like kind of?
Yeah, there were a couple of pattern of injuries.
So first one is bullets, you know, a gunshot wounds, and they were very
accurate, almost
exclusively in the head and neck or critical mass shots.
Right?
Um, every now and then we'd see an abdominal wound, but, um, and then
explosions were, were
the other one.
So burn injuries and then projectiles, you know, um, from shrapnel, uh, that
was another big
one.
And then, um, every now and then you would see like, Oh, you know, something
local happened,
like a trampling or, you know, some, some internal fight, but those were
extremely rare.
Like you're talking about, you know, when, when people, when groups of people
are coming
in, they're coming on, on donkey, it's their ambulance basically.
And they do have some ambulances, but most people come in via donkey or by
family and they're
just like throw them in the ER and like take care of them.
And the guy's arm is exploded from, you know, explosion or a baby basically has
85% burns.
And there's no way they're going to survive that to a guy with a gunshot wound
to his head.
I mean, I'm, I'm not, I'm not even exaggerating this and I have pictures to
prove that, you
know, some of them are too gory for perhaps a non-physician, but what is, what's
the process
like when, when they come in, like, is there security at the front of the
hospital?
Cause I imagine that the hospital would just be almost being overrun by people
looking for
shelter aid constantly or even water.
Like, yeah, what was that?
Like, yeah, it is overrun and there's, there's no security.
I mean, it's like one guy at the door saying like, you know, let the doctors go
to the trauma
bay and he's trying to hold like a whole sea of people back.
But, um, no, there's a parking lot.
Is there like a fence where that's keeping people in and out?
Like, no, no, no.
The hospital is run by people.
Like there's kids looking for water while you're like talking to a neurosurgeon
about the
next step for a patient's care.
It's weird.
Like we're shooing, not me, but like the locals are just shooing kids away
because they're
looking for clean drinking water and it's in the hospital and like in this room,
for example,
where we're podcasting, there would be like four or five kids looking for water
going in
and out.
I mean, people, patients, family sleeping outside the ICU, the hallways were
full.
I mean, like there was no single area on the wall that you could sit.
I mean, people feel safe in the hospital because it, you know, it's not being
bombed.
Yeah.
Oh, here's some photos right here.
Wow.
That's wild.
How do you guys decide right when somebody gets there, what level of care that
they need
and if you're going to be able to care for them, what's that like?
When a patient enters the ER, there is a green zone, a yellow zone and a red
zone.
So depending on the severity of the injury.
So they get triaged.
This is when there's a non-MCI, so non-mass casualty incident.
When it's a mass casualty incident, the whole ER is a red zone.
So the green zone is light injuries, you know, yellow zones, intermediate
injuries and red
zone is basically critical injuries.
And then there was a black zone.
Black zone is basically anyone who's going to die.
You just kind of move them from the red zone to the black zone and you tell the
family like,
there's no chance.
And we were, we were doing that often.
And is that your responsibility too?
Yeah.
As a physician, of course, you know, it's our job to make that decision, but
also tell the
family, like there's, there's nothing we can do.
And those are hard conversations.
You know, for example, resource management is something we haven't gotten into.
For example, in America, we have ventilators, right?
The breathing machine.
If in the ER, there was very limited amount of breathing machines to the point,
if there
was like a 70 year old and a 20 year old who got injured, we would have to
determine who
gets that breathing machine.
And there was an instance where we actually had to say, well, the 20 year old
has a longer
life expectancy.
So, you know, the seven year old is going to have to go to that black unit and
kind of
die off.
So you tell the family, they don't like that answer, but it is what it is.
What else can you do?
So it was, it was a, you know, sometimes we even got into arguments with the
locals because
we didn't understand how bad the resource management issue was, right?
Like we're coming from America, we're like, dude, we could, we can do it.
We can save this patient, but no, there's nothing you can do.
There's literally nothing you can do without the resources, the medicines that
are not coming
in, you know?
And that's the reality.
Food is a huge problem, obviously not coming in, but medications, supplies,
surgical equipment,
it's just not coming in.
And, you know, we would try to bring it in our, you know, 50 pound carry on
bags and whatnot.
But what is that going to do?
Right?
You're talking about 2.2 million people.
You're talking about six doctors trying to save the world.
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
And it's just like absolute chaos.
There's family members, security in the hospitals, trying to push out the
family members so the doctors
and nurses can take care of the patients.
It's absolute chaos.
Us American physicians are just like looking at each other like, what is going
on here?
And, you know, that was, that was, that's when reality hit.
And I was like, okay, this must be like a one off.
And it just kept happening every day.
And sometimes multiple times a day.
We were, we were at a table with our medical student, you know, a couple of us
doing rounds,
which means talking about cases, talking about patients.
And, uh, one of our medical students is like, what happens to the body after
death?
And so we were like, whoa, you know, we kind of just like talked a little bit
spiritually.
And then, uh, she's like my uncle and 20 family members just got drone striked
like an hour ago.
And not a single tear, not a single facial expression.
And I was like, oh my God, like, how do I respond to that?
You know, if that happened in America, you would tell your medical school and
go take a week off,
take a month off, do whatever you need to do.
And then she took three hours off to go to the funeral the next day and came
back.
And that's, that's it.
One of your coworkers?
One of the medical students.
Yeah.
She's 22.
In Gaza?
In Gaza.
And she was working there?
Yeah.
The medical students are full fledged medical students.
They come every day.
They're some of the hardest working people there.
It's crazy.
Dude, when people come in, are they, are they coming in on stretchers?
Is there like a nurse desk or anything like that?
Like what's kind of like the setup there?
Does it feel like a regular hospital?
It does.
But the difference is there's an ambulance here and there, but majority of
patients are coming
in on donkey carts and a private vehicle, which is like, they stuff like four
or five bodies
in that, the back of the car.
And then families are just holding, you know, their loved ones and just running
inside through
the double doors and plopping the patient down wherever they can find them.
You know, sometimes in the wrong area, then they have to pick them up and move
them to
the critical area versus the green area I was talking about before.
And it's chaos like that, right?
But yeah, when the, when the traumas come in, it's just, it's, it's, it's
people running
all over the place.
It's not as much organization as you would imagine an American hospital.
What did you guys do with the deceased?
What's, what's.
So when we declared someone dead, it would be the family's responsibility to do
all the
transportation and all the, you know, administrative stuff.
So we would just pronounce them dead.
And then it would be the family's responsibility to take that body to the morgue,
which is like
maybe a hundred meters away, like a football field away.
And then the ministry of health would process the body, document what, what
happens.
And then they would pray on it and then bury it the same day.
So if you, maybe an hour or two, all that happens, but it was a assembly line.
Like, you know, patient coming to ER, dead morgue, prayer, funeral, and just
constant,
like throughout the day, you're just looking at the window and it's all you see.
Did you, were you guys able to go to the morgue at all?
I did.
Yeah.
Um, one day I have some pictures of that.
Um, there's like, just, it was a mass casualty.
There was like 15 bodies just lined up.
Some of them were kids, pretty much all, um, headshots.
This was from the, the GHF site actually.
And I was so disgusted.
I actually took like a, like a video when I was there.
Yeah.
That right one right there.
It was disgusting.
I mean, I, I have never experienced anything like that.
And I purposely went there during that time because I was like, I want to feel
what the locals are feeling like I'm in the ER or I'm in the hospital.
You know, I want to actually feel what these people.
And so you hear the wailing of the woman when they find out their, their loved
one has, has died.
They actually have this gazebo right there and that's her hospital.
And that's where they put the dead bodies that have not, uh, families have not
identified the bodies yet.
So every now and then you see the family members going into gazebo, looking at
like these 10 bodies, opening up the zipper, looking at the face.
If they can even like, you know, um, put the face together and, um, and then
you just hear a shriek.
That's like, man, that's freaky.
God.
Yeah.
That's crazy, man.
That's crazy.
I mean, the word, I don't even know what to say.
It was one thing to declare a patient dead, but it's another thing to feel the
family's pain and see them preying on it and kind of going through that
grieving process.
Are there any particular moments that really stood out to you during your
tenure?
There is like providing care, like things where you're like, man, this is like
an intense side of conflict or of war or of violence.
Yeah.
One story that really sticks out is this 30 year old pregnant lady, 15 week old
baby in her uterus comes in with trauma and, um, uh, and her blood pressure's
dropping.
She clearly has some internal bleeding going on.
We put the fetal heart tones on the baby to see if their heart rate's going, no
fetal heart tones.
So we emergently take her up to the emergency, uh, uh, operating room.
We, um, we open up the, the uterus and extract the fetus.
And it's essentially a bullet shot through the uterus, through the neck of the
fetus.
And just to see that was, I don't think a human is expected to see that, you
know, like there's fetal demise, you know, fetal death from various medical
causes.
But you don't see a exploded fetus with blood coming out of the neck.
That was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
And so, so the fact that she went from almost having a baby in a couple of
months to never being able to have a baby again, because they had to take the
uterus out is one of the most tragic things for a woman, especially, right?
Like, especially in Gaza, where one of the, the, the, the, the biggest honors
is to have children and, you know, bring up the next generation and, and to
know that female, even though she survived, will never have a child again, uh,
you know, really hit me hard, especially cause I just had a five month old
waiting for me at home.
And that was hard to, I'm still, I'm still thinking about that, you know, but
to paradox that I had a really amazing story, which, you know, if you don't
mind, I'll share.
And this is brother, um, I'm here and he's a 15, um, 15 year old that shows up
to the emergency department, you know, I don't see his face.
I'm just focusing on his blood pressure, which is like almost nothing.
And so we're putting a, an ultrasound on his heart and there's blood around his
heart.
So his heart can't beat cause there's too much blood.
So we, um, we put this tube emergently, um, into his heart and relieve the
pressure and his blood pressure spikes.
He's back up again.
He's still unconscious.
Two days later, the doctor who was taking care of him brings him to me.
And he's like, do you know who this is?
I was like, I have no idea.
I never saw his face.
And he's like, I don't know, is that your child?
And he's like, no, I'm like, look at him.
I was like, I have no idea.
And so he asked me, he asked the kid to like lift up his shirt and I see the
scar where I put the tube in and dude, this guy is smiling, like such a
beautiful smile.
And he's literally going to be discharged in two days.
And look at that smile.
So he's just such a beautiful.
Oh, he's geeked.
Yeah, man.
It was, it was, it was probably the happiest story.
If I went to Gaza and I just had that story, I would come back a happy man, you
know?
And that's what being able to provide medical care is all about.
Just that one experience.
Oh, it's great, dude.
Wow.
Yeah, that's cool.
But you know, that's, unfortunately, this is too far too common, you know?
Right.
I gave this example, but there's so many kids, you know, I'll tell you one more
story, if you don't mind.
Yeah.
Just pull it up here real quick.
This is a one-year-old and there was an explosion, you know, this baby had 85%
of the body burned, which is pretty much guaranteed death.
The team still tried to get some access into one of the blood vessels to give
fluids, but they were unable to.
So they had to declare the baby dead.
Why is it hard to get access into a blood vessel of a baby?
Well, with 85% burns, you basically have lost all your volume, your water.
There's like no fluid in you anymore.
To flow into.
Exactly.
So there's just nothing to get access into.
So then they had to tell the mom that, you know, the baby died, one-year-old.
The mom collapses.
Now we have to take care of the mom, you know?
Anyways, after we finally got that taken care of, this is the baby.
And this is a one-year-old baby.
And then this is what I see next, the father taking this one-year-old to the
morgue.
And it's just like, to me, I see that man, and I'm like, man, would I be that
strong to be able to hold my one-year-old in this foil wrap and walk to the morgue
minutes after pronounced dead by the doctor?
I don't think I would, you know?
And I look at these Gazans, and they're just so used to death at this point
that it's like, okay, what's next, you know?
And they're like machines.
And I think, truly, it's their faith that gets them through it, you know?
They really don't have anything else.
We talked about it.
There's no humanity left.
They feel like no one in the world's listening.
And it's really sad, you know, just to hear those stories from them that they
just want to be noticed.
Thank you.

Gaza Doctor Describes the Chaos of the Hospital

Dr. Raman, thanks for joining me today, man.
Thanks for having me, especially on short notice.
Yeah, I appreciate it, man.
We'll just get right into it.
You did a service in, you're a doctor?
Yes.
Okay, and you just did a service in Gaza?
And how did they say it there?
They say Gaza, but you can say Gaza.
Okay.
I was saying Gaza when I was there.
Yeah?
Yeah, it worked out.
Cool.
I came back.
What hospital were you stationed at over there?
So Nasser Hospital.
Okay.
You know, you probably heard on the news that it's the last functioning
hospital in Gaza.
And it truly is.
There's other smaller hospitals, but they're really not functioning at a scale
of a hospital.
So when I got there, basically those other two told everyone at Nasser,
hey, there's this guy, he's an interventional radiologist, give him all your
cases.
Because they come down like once a week.
So if there's a patient who needs a procedure, they need to wait seven days for
essentially.
As for like, for example, the ER doctors, especially the ones we came with,
they typically do eight or 12-hour shifts in America.
So when they got there, the energy was high.
They're like, oh, we're going to do, you know, a 12-hour shift.
And then the locals just laughed.
They're like, no, you're not.
You're going to do a four-hour shift because you're not going to make it more
than that.
And it turns out they were right.
Really?
It's just so intense.
It's the most intense traumatic experience I don't think any physician can
understand.
I would say take the most experienced trauma surgeon, you know, in Baltimore,
which is like one
of the biggest trauma centers in America and put them in Gaza.
And it's like child's play compared to what's going on in Gaza.
You're talking about like an influx of like 400 patients in like four hours
with 30 casualties
on arrival, 30 headshots on arrival, 30 critical mass shots on arrival.
And then like everything in between women, children, elderly men, young boys.
And it's just like, what, how the heck do you triage all this?
And that was every day, man.
So it took a mental toll.
What's that first moment that you noticed?
Like, oh my God, this is a lot.
Yeah.
So the first day we got there was actually pretty chill the Friday, but then
the Saturday
they had the MCI, it's called a mass casualty incident.
And they basically pull a fire alarm.
I was like, what the hell is that?
Oh, every doctor come down to the ER to try to help.
And so I was like, okay.
So went downstairs, got in there.
It's just like brain matter coming out of people.
There's guts coming out of people's abdomens.
There's people's legs blown off and someone's carrying it in next to the, you
know, one of
the family members bringing it in for the doctors and, you know, they think you
can just
reattach it and it's just like absolute chaos.
There's family members, security in the hospitals trying to push out the family
members so the
doctors and nurses can take care of the patients.
It's absolute chaos.
And then us American physicians are just like looking at each other like, what
is going on
here?
And, you know, that was, that was, that's when reality hit and I was like, okay,
this must
be like a one-off and it just kept happening every day and sometimes multiple
times a day.
But when we were there, we were staying on the balcony looking on, you know,
during our break
time as, as physicians and boom, you just see this giant explosion, your, your
drums are
rumbling and it's just like, who just died there?
Was it a Hamas guy?
It was like a family, right?
So then you go down to the ER and there's like 30 patients that show up and you
ask them
like, you know, what happened?
Oh, the shrapnel injuries from an explosion.
You know, some lady has like a, a high speed velocity, you know, piece of shrapnel
that went
toward a belly or a leg has some of after emerging surgery.
Some people goes right through their skull and so, um, and then you realize
every single
explosion and it was happening about every 30 minutes in Han Yunus at that time,
I would
say, um, from my experience, you realize every 30 minutes there's an explosion
and people are dying.
Right?
So even if every single one of those explosions was Hamas, why is there 30, 50
patients coming
in, you know, routinely?
So that's what's interesting.
When I say mass casualty incident, we're talking about an influx of like 400
patients, but it
doesn't stop between the hour.
Right?
So even at nighttime, there's patients chronically consistently coming in and
all night.
Right?
So some of us had night shifts.
Basically we would help out the night team.
Our job was just to help out.
Right?
Like I was in the ER, I was in the OR, the operating room to, to on the floors.
I was sometimes being a nurse, just helping out getting IV access and little
kids.
So we were just everywhere trying to help out anywhere.
What type of injuries were you guys seeing come in?
Like what, like, what was it like kind of?
Yeah, there were a couple of pattern of injuries.
So first one is bullets, you know, a gunshot wounds, and they were very
accurate, almost
exclusively in the head and neck or critical mass shots.
Right?
Um, every now and then we'd see an abdominal wound, but, um, and then
explosions were, were
the other one.
So burn injuries and then projectiles, you know, um, from shrapnel, uh, that
was another big
one.
And then, um, every now and then you would see like, Oh, you know, something
local happened,
like a trampling or, you know, some, some internal fight, but those were
extremely rare.
Like you're talking about, you know, when, when people, when groups of people
are coming
in, they're coming on, on donkey, it's their ambulance basically.
And they do have some ambulances, but most people come in via donkey or by
family and they're
just like throw them in the ER and like take care of them.
And the guy's arm is exploded from, you know, explosion or a baby basically has
85% burns.
And there's no way they're going to survive that to a guy with a gunshot wound
to his head.
I mean, I'm, I'm not, I'm not even exaggerating this and I have pictures to
prove that, you
know, some of them are too gory for perhaps a non-physician, but what is, what's
the process
like when, when they come in, like, is there security at the front of the
hospital?
Cause I imagine that the hospital would just be almost being overrun by people
looking for
shelter aid constantly or even water.
Like, yeah, what was that?
Like, yeah, it is overrun and there's, there's no security.
I mean, it's like one guy at the door saying like, you know, let the doctors go
to the trauma
bay and he's trying to hold like a whole sea of people back.
But, um, no, there's a parking lot.
Is there like a fence where that's keeping people in and out?
Like, no, no, no.
The hospital is run by people.
Like there's kids looking for water while you're like talking to a neurosurgeon
about the
next step for a patient's care.
It's weird.
Like we're shooing, not me, but like the locals are just shooing kids away
because they're
looking for clean drinking water and it's in the hospital and like in this room,
for example,
where we're podcasting, there would be like four or five kids looking for water
going in
and out.
I mean, people, patients, family sleeping outside the ICU, the hallways were
full.
I mean, like there was no single area on the wall that you could sit.
I mean, people feel safe in the hospital because it, you know, it's not being
bombed.
Yeah.
Oh, here's some photos right here.
Wow.
That's wild.
How do you guys decide right when somebody gets there, what level of care that
they need
and if you're going to be able to care for them, what's that like?
When a patient enters the ER, there is a green zone, a yellow zone and a red
zone.
So depending on the severity of the injury.
So they get triaged.
This is when there's a non-MCI, so non-mass casualty incident.
When it's a mass casualty incident, the whole ER is a red zone.
So the green zone is light injuries, you know, yellow zones, intermediate
injuries and red
zone is basically critical injuries.
And then there was a black zone.
Black zone is basically anyone who's going to die.
You just kind of move them from the red zone to the black zone and you tell the
family like,
there's no chance.
And we were, we were doing that often.
And is that your responsibility too?
Yeah.
As a physician, of course, you know, it's our job to make that decision, but
also tell the
family, like there's, there's nothing we can do.
And those are hard conversations.
You know, for example, resource management is something we haven't gotten into.
For example, in America, we have ventilators, right?
The breathing machine.
If in the ER, there was very limited amount of breathing machines to the point,
if there
was like a 70 year old and a 20 year old who got injured, we would have to
determine who
gets that breathing machine.
And there was an instance where we actually had to say, well, the 20 year old
has a longer
life expectancy.
So, you know, the seven year old is going to have to go to that black unit and
kind of
die off.
So you tell the family, they don't like that answer, but it is what it is.
What else can you do?
So it was, it was a, you know, sometimes we even got into arguments with the
locals because
we didn't understand how bad the resource management issue was, right?
Like we're coming from America, we're like, dude, we could, we can do it.
We can save this patient, but no, there's nothing you can do.
There's literally nothing you can do without the resources, the medicines that
are not coming
in, you know?
And that's the reality.
Food is a huge problem, obviously not coming in, but medications, supplies,
surgical equipment,
it's just not coming in.
And, you know, we would try to bring it in our, you know, 50 pound carry on
bags and whatnot.
But what is that going to do?
Right?
You're talking about 2.2 million people.
You're talking about six doctors trying to save the world.
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
And it's just like absolute chaos.
There's family members, security in the hospitals, trying to push out the
family members so the doctors
and nurses can take care of the patients.
It's absolute chaos.
Us American physicians are just like looking at each other like, what is going
on here?
And, you know, that was, that was, that's when reality hit.
And I was like, okay, this must be like a one off.
And it just kept happening every day.
And sometimes multiple times a day.
We were, we were at a table with our medical student, you know, a couple of us
doing rounds,
which means talking about cases, talking about patients.
And, uh, one of our medical students is like, what happens to the body after
death?
And so we were like, whoa, you know, we kind of just like talked a little bit
spiritually.
And then, uh, she's like my uncle and 20 family members just got drone striked
like an hour ago.
And not a single tear, not a single facial expression.
And I was like, oh my God, like, how do I respond to that?
You know, if that happened in America, you would tell your medical school and
go take a week off,
take a month off, do whatever you need to do.
And then she took three hours off to go to the funeral the next day and came
back.
And that's, that's it.
One of your coworkers?
One of the medical students.
Yeah.
She's 22.
In Gaza?
In Gaza.
And she was working there?
Yeah.
The medical students are full fledged medical students.
They come every day.
They're some of the hardest working people there.
It's crazy.
Dude, when people come in, are they, are they coming in on stretchers?
Is there like a nurse desk or anything like that?
Like what's kind of like the setup there?
Does it feel like a regular hospital?
It does.
But the difference is there's an ambulance here and there, but majority of
patients are coming
in on donkey carts and a private vehicle, which is like, they stuff like four
or five bodies
in that, the back of the car.
And then families are