Posted on 10/17/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by whershey
The Stars and Stripes has an article this morning about nurses working at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad. The hospital was once the private facility of Saddam and since the fall of Baghdad is the primary hospital in the area.
The article paints a good picture of the difficulties the nurses face in having to take care of both our wounded and Iraqi insurgent wounded. The nurses emphasize that no matter what their personal feelings may be, once a patient enters the hospital they are all treated equally.
Having worked in healthcare for 20 years I have nothing but admiration for those nurses and other healthcare workers. I know how difficult it is to work in that field under normal circumstances, let alone doing it in a strange country where many of the patients hate you.
To: Capt. Batina Sundem 1st Lt. Jill Schroeder Capt. Lisa Breece Maj. Patricia Born Spc. Steve Hodgkins Capt. Leslie Goodwin Capt. Laura Ricardo
and other nurses and medical personnel from Ibn Sina Hospital, thank you for your service. Your country salutes you.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldwar4.net ...
Great story. Thank you for sharing. I am a good friend of SPC Steven S. Hodgkins from California and am trying to loate him. We lost contact in 1999. Please advise.
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