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Today's guest is a doctor from Wisconsin who recently returned from a two-week medical

mission trip in Gaza where he provided aid at one of the last

functioning hospitals there. We're going to talk about all of it, the tragedy, the ups,

the downs, the diabolicalness, the hope. I am very grateful for his time. This episode can get a bit

intense or a bit graphic at time.

So if that's not for you, then this may not be for you.

Today's guest is Dr. Aziz, Raman.

Shine on me and I will find a song.

I'll be singing. I love this. Yeah. Dr. Raman, thanks for joining me today, man.

Thanks for having me, especially on short notice.

Yeah, I appreciate it, man.

You, we'll just get right into you did a service in, you're a doctor. Yes. Okay. And you just got a, you just did a service in Gaza. And how did they say it there? Are they say Gaza? But you can say Gaza. Okay. I was saying Gaza when I was there. Yeah? It worked out. Cool. I came back. What hospital were you stationed at over there? So, Nasser Hospital. Okay. You know, you probably heard on the news that's a last functioning hospital in Gaza, and it truly is. There's other smaller hospitals, but they're really not functioning at a scale of a hospital. And how do you get chosen to go there? You live in Milwaukee and you, you doctor out of Milwaukee currently?

That's right. Yeah. So you go through your own hospital or do it? No, this has nothing to do with my hospital. In fact, I don't even tell my hospital I was going. You didn't? I just told one of my colleagues. He helped me with my schedule. And I reached out to one of these organizations and then they reached out back to me

when there was a spot available and they told me, hey, we got this spot available in two months.

Are you willing to go?

And when I got that invitation from them, I was on a plane back to my family and I was like,

man, how am I going to tell my wife, my kids, my mom, my dad? So that's all I was thinking, you know. And, yeah, landed. The kids were put to sleep, went to my wife. And I was like, hey, let's go have some cup of coffee. And I was like, hey, I had this opportunity. And she's like, it's Gaza. And I was like, God, how'd you know? She knew, huh? She knew because, you know, this has been going on for so long. Yeah. You know, and I've been talking about it at work. I've been talking about with my friend, what I would call and many would call a genocide, even though it hasn't legally been to find. I mean, it hurts, man. I found myself coming home from work, you know, after good day's work, but just unhappy, you know, I was just like, man, like,

just, man. I found myself coming home from work, you know, after good days work, which is unhappy. You know, I was just like, man, like, there's kids dying out there, you know. I'm taking care of these adults, you know, with alcoholic cirrhosis, you know, they made these decisions to their liver, for example. Yeah. You know, but these kids, they are innocent, right? And so, and then I come home and see my children running up to me asking me to pay video games with them, watch TV, have some snacks.

I'm saying, this dichotomy is so hard to, like, reconcile.

And so when I got this invitation, it was almost like this opportunity to, like, decompress, if that makes any sense, in the war zone.

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