Emergency Surgery During Conflict

I did a, a leg amputation on a five-year-old girl,

and the only

anesthesia that we had

was the anesthesia doctor singing to her.

Um,

s- she didn't faint. We were praying for her to faint.

She stayed awake the whole amputation.

That was at three o'clock in the morning that-- when the, um,

ceasefire broke,

and, um, it was-- that which broke at 2:30 in the morning on the

18th.

And the only thing I did before then was, uh,

text message one of our US senators, Trump's campaign manager,

and asked him to contact Trump 'cause he had his cell phone and

duplicate what Reagan did in 1982, I think it was, calling Menachem

Begin to please stop the bombing of Lebanon, that he could put a,

a stop to this

because the ER floor was filled with

dozens of babies that were missing limbs or

needed to be missing a limb, uh, that were shredded.

And, um, and this is in a hospital

that it, it's probably a 40 or 50-bed hospital,

you know? Whi- which is incredibly small