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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Humanitarian Extraordinaire: An Interview with Dr. Ammar Darwish

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education, Science

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Need a dose of inspiration?  You found it here.  This interview with Dr. Ammar Darwish will have you in awe.  Dr. Darwish is a general and trauma surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Medical Director at The David Nott Foundation (https://davidnottfoundation.com/).  Dr. Darwish volunteers for intensely dangerous but highly impactful surgical humanitarian missions in conflict zones around the world. In fact, he has been deployed to over 50 global humanitarian missions in the last 15 years. He is passionate about helping victims of conflict and natural disaster by better equipping and training doctors who care for them. 

Want to learn more about the Nott Foundation?  Good!  You should.  Check out their website for more: https://davidnottfoundation.com/

Interview with Dr. David Knott: https://app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/war-doctor-david-nott-on-surgery-in-war-zones

Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.  

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0:00.0

You can't guarantee that you won't get be, you won't get shot, abducted, your hospital

0:10.5

bombed and unfortunately that happened several times you get snived on the way from one place to another.

0:20.0

If I go there and contribute into saving even one life, one child. I think that's good enough

0:29.6

for me. Go back again.

0:40.0

And this is the first time I see a child crying without a cell. His tears were coming down and he didn't say a word.

0:45.0

He looked at me, took the toy and just turned his specs away.

0:49.0

That woke my heart.

0:51.0

I imagined my son as there in his position and I felt so bad. After two days the father came back and he said oh I'm asking about my son

1:05.3

so I was really frustrated with the dad that where did you go where did you leave your

1:10.0

son and go he said I'm so sorry doctor when I brought him, the baritone hit our house or a building.

1:16.6

I post him's here and I knew that he's going to be safe in the hospital.

1:20.3

I went back to my house to dig out my daughters and my wife and I just managed to get

1:28.9

them out and I buried them and I came back to my son. Welcome back to Behind the Knife, this is Patrick Georgeoff, Trauma and

1:46.6

acute research in a Duke University and we've got a really special episode

1:51.6

for you today, one I've been looking forward to for quite some time and the reason I'm so excited

1:56.7

is because of our guest, Dr. Amar Darwish, someone I admire very much and

2:00.4

thrilled to have on behind the knife.

2:03.0

Mark, welcome to the podcast.

2:05.0

Thank you very much, Patrick, thank you so much for the invitation.

2:09.0

And to be honest, I'm a huge fan and I follow the work,

2:12.0

your work and the team up behind the knife and it's

2:16.7

brizome great pleasure to be with you.

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