Inside the Israeli Hospital

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tim Samuels spends 24 hours immersed in an extraordinary medical scene - Israeli doctors tending to Syrians who have been smuggled over the border for life-saving treatment into a country Syria is technically still at war with. In the Ziv hospital in the northern Israeli town of Safed, Tim follows two doctors on their rounds as they treat Syrians - both civilians and fighters - who have been seriously wounded in their country's civil war.

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0:00.0	Even by Middle Eastern standards it's an extraordinary scene.
0:09.3	Syrians wounded in the country's silver war being treated in an Israeli hospital.
0:15.0	I'm Tim Samuels for the BBC World Service and I'm about to spend 24 hours with two doctors
0:21.1	on their rounds as they treat people from Syria.
0:24.0	A country Israel is technically still at war with. Hi, nice to meet you. Tim.
0:33.0	Nice to meet you.
0:44.0	Nice to meet you.
0:50.0	There's not much space to sit down in the poky office of Professor Alexander Lerner, the Russian-born
0:56.5	director of orthopedics at Ziv Hospital, a dapper doctor with kindly eyes that been from his photos on the walls.
1:04.4	Maybe some people you meet, this is Ted Cruz.
1:08.8	Ted Cruz, the Republican candidate.
1:10.6	Yeah.
1:11.6	And this is Bush Junior Junior.
1:15.0	That's Bush Junior Junior.
1:17.0	You know when the people visit our hospital, you start seeing maybe start of election because why visit our
1:27.4	hospital? Yeah and he is this guy and this is president of Togo.
1:33.0	President of Togo.
1:34.0	This is former miss of the world.
1:37.0	And this is you with five...
1:39.0	Five-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-Dansers.
1:42.0	Yeah, this is from St. Petersburg meeting.
1:44.0	But you know the most important picture, 8-year-old Syrian girl, after a huge injury to a lower limb,
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