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Can we talk about the Gleea project and some of your experiences on the ground in the past

and how important turnicates are?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, the Glee Project basically came up during the 2012 War and the origin story as it is, is that I was taking care of all these patients. I had this

beautiful Littman stethoscope, which I brought with me from Canva and as it happened I was the only one with a stethoscope in that emergency.

Basically for one reason or another Littmans weren't available. They're're very very expensive they're about at that time it was about a month salary for a doctor and also they were just very hard to get in because the blockade was going full steam and so really the only stethoscopes that were available to most doctors were so poor in quality that they're basically useless.

And so during the war, especially when they're explosive injuries, the way that they work, they can sometimes

end up for, like just to make it simple for your audience popping a lung.

This is called a pneumothorax and pneumothorax in certain cases can kill you,

tensioned pneumothorax. And so this is something that's very easy to treat if you identify

it correctly and fatal if you don't.

It's very high risk, sort of high risk, high reward condition.

And, you know, at that time I was the only one with this stethoscope there would be maybe 100 people come in at a time and there'd be 10 of us working in the emerge and I'd have the only stethoscope and so we pass it around and when you needed to

figure it out if you didn't if you were the guy with the stethoscope or the woman the stethoscope

then you put your ear to the patient's chest,

which was often bloody.

It's not like everything is blood and their chest is fine.

And then we would walk around,

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