Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line
of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city’s
hospitals faced severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried in
skin.
For Boston doctors, the challenge presented by last week’s
bombing was unprecedented — but they were prepared.
Many of the city’s hospitals have doctors with actual battlefield
experience. Others have trauma experience from deployments on
humanitarian missions, like the one that followed the Haitian
earthquake, and have learned from presentations by veterans of
other terror attacks like the one at a movie theater in
Colorado.
But they have benefited as well from the expertise developed by
Israeli physicians over decades of treating victims of terrorist
attacks — expertise that Israel has shared with scores of
doctors and hospitals around the world. Eight years ago, four
Israeli doctors and a staff of nurses spent two days at
Massachusetts General Hospital teaching hospital staff the
methods pioneered in Israel.
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