Aleppo, Syria, Nov. 6. Credit: Fadi Al-Halabi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
In Syria, Doctors Become the Victims
By Leonard S. Rubenstein and M. Zaher Sahloul // Nov. 19, 2014
“Working in a field hospital is like death,” a surgeon told us two weeks ago in Turkey, where more than two dozen Syrian doctors and other health workers had come for training. As if treating victims of the Syrian Army’s weapon of choice, the barrel bomb, wasn’t enough, they themselves were often victims of those same terrible devices.