They should have send Woodruff to a "Palestinian" hospital.
You are correct, milemark. Hospitals in Iraq are in sad shape.
"Iraq's top professionals -- doctors, lawyers, professors -- and businessmen have been targeted by shadowy political groups for kidnapping and ransom, as well as murder, some of them say. So many have fled the country that Iraq is in danger of losing the core of skilled people it needs most just as it is trying to build a newly independent society."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012201112.html
The Iraqi army and police will have to wipe out foreign terrorists, Baathist insurgents and just plain criminals very quickly, in order to keep people who have options in Iraq. I have to admit, I would not stay in a country where kidnapping for ransom and murder was a common, everyday occurrence. And if I held out through that threat, once the medical system was gone, I wouldn't want to stay for that reason.
What I wonder about is, what happens to the brave Iraqi soldiers and policemen who are wounded? So they get the benefit of good medical care, or are they taken to hospitals with inadequate staff? The answer to this question will have a lot more bearing on Iraq's future than the question of how Woodruff is treated.