{"id":6717,"date":"2018-04-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:58:36","slug":"focus-on-miracle-workers-the-shadow-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2018\/04\/19\/focus-on-miracle-workers-the-shadow-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Miracle Workers: The Shadow Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Wilson
\n<\/b>Staff Writer <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Known in the humanitarian medical relief world as the \u201cIndiana Jones of Surgery,\u201d David Nott is a renowned British surgeon who has made a name for himself volunteering in chaotic war and disaster environments. \u00a0The <\/span>British Medical Journal<\/span><\/a> described him as a doctor \u201cdrawn to the sound of gunfire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nott garnered an extensive list of volunteer field experiences over the past two decades; he began training doctors and performing operations during the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War in 1993. Subsequently, Nott practiced surgeries in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chad, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and many more. \u00a0Most recently, he undertook a medical campaign in Syria, performing remote surgeries with doctors through smart phones as well as putting himself on the ground, reports <\/span>the National<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On <\/span>his foundation\u2019s website<\/span><\/a>, Nott illustrates events during January 2017 when he operated on wounded children around the clock in an Aleppo field hospital. \u00a0Describing a five-month old infant named Maram whose legs and left arm had been shattered by the same bomb that killed her parents and injured her brother and sister, he stated, \u201cI saw my own child and, perhaps because I missed her so desperately, I felt intensely overwhelmed. \u00a0I have made numerous trips to Syria to treat the casualties of war, but none was as sorrowful as the week I spent with Aleppo\u2019s children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Recounting Maram\u2019s operation, Nott described the difficulties that occur due to the lack of doctors or access to medicines in Aleppo. \u00a0Without sufficient access to analgesic fluid, Maram suffered painfully on a tiny dose of paracetamol, a form of Tylenol used for mild discomfort. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With whatever doctors available overlapping on patients due to the frequency of airstrikes and the immense numbers of wounded, Nott couldn\u2019t even discern what medication Maram had already received. \u00a0\u201cThe whole hospital stank of the bacteria that had caused her infections\u2026 I worked delicately around the open compound fracture Maram had suffered in her left leg,\u201d quotes <\/span>the Daily Mail<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the Assad regime\u2019s role, Physicians for Human Rights stated that since the war began, the Syrian regime has tortured, bombed and assassinated almost seven hundred medical personnel, reports the Daily Mail. A United Nations commission deduced that \u201cgovernment forces deliberately target medical personnel to gain military advantage.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to , Aleppo once housed thousands of physicians, but the recent conflict has caused their mass exodus to Europe and neighboring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Nott\u2019s tactic of remotely aiding Syrian doctors via Skype and WhatsApp may have backfired on him, reports <\/span>the BBC<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Nott fears that the hacking of his computer led to the destruction of an Aleppo hospital by a suspected Russian \u201cbunker buster\u201d bomb. \u00a0More disturbing, the BBC Newsnight program that broadcasted one of Nott\u2019s 2016 operations is thought to have played a role in disclosure of the hospital\u2019s location.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of suspicions that his electronic footprint was used to target this underground hospital, Nott will stop directing Syrian operations remotely via smart phones. \u00a0\u201cThe thing that gets me is that we now cannot help doctors in war zones\u2026 If somebody is watching what we are doing and blows up the hospital then that is a war crime,\u201d cites the National of Nott. \u00a0Tech experts said identifying and pinpointing a location by performing a hack such as the supposed one on Nott\u2019s computer is plausible, but unlikely, according to <\/span>the Telegraph<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Save for this setback, enormous tribute should be payed to David Nott. \u00a0As praised by Priti Patel, a former minister on the UK Parliament\u2019s House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, \u201che is an amazing individual who in the most difficult circumstances has been saving lives in Syria while the bombs of Assad have been falling down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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