War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival — When Relief Is Not Protection
What happens when institutions become highly capable of treating suffering but remain unable to stop the system producing it?
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Using War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival by Sheri Fink as our lens, this investigation follows the doctors and humanitarian workers confronting the siege of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
Fink documents physicians improvising surgery with inadequate anesthesia, equipment, electricity, and supplies while facing a deeper dilemma: medicine could treat the casualties of…
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