Interviewer: When these patients come into the emergency room, what is it that you don’t have?

Dr. Samer Attar: There’s no sterility. Anesthesia is kind of a luxury sometimes. We had two kids come in, two young kids involved in an explosion. One was missing skin over half of his body. The other one, we did an emergency amputation of his leg. Both could have been saved. They were both brothers. I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood. There’s only so much blood to give. The blood bank said, sorry, we don’t have any more to give you. We just can’t give you any more. It was a Palestinian doctor. He collapsed to the ground, crying and he said he can’t take it anymore, because he’s lost so many kids for something as simple as a blood transfusion. That kid just, we just sat back and helplessly watched him die on the operating room table. His brother was the same story. He could have been saved but we didn’t have blood. And he died the next day.