email846.xml
Title
email846.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
email
Date Entered
2002-09-12
September 11 Email: Body
Chas:
This morning the medical school had a special grand rounds to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11. At this assembly, two international experts lectured about weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism. After grand rounds, I headed into the operating rooms to do what I've been trained to do, that is to "save lives and stamp out disease" as Dad would say. At the same time I realized how ill equipped and poorly trained I am to care for victims of the disease known as terrorism.
Perhaps the training you are receiving and the work that someday you do will be more effective against terrorism. Understanding cultures, language and communication are more important here than management of airway, breathing and circulation. In the fight against terrorism, human communication has the potential to save more lives than all the surgeons and anesthesiologists in all the operating rooms in the world.
It's time for me to go back to airway, breathing and circulation. You - go read some Greek.
Mom
This morning the medical school had a special grand rounds to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11. At this assembly, two international experts lectured about weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism. After grand rounds, I headed into the operating rooms to do what I've been trained to do, that is to "save lives and stamp out disease" as Dad would say. At the same time I realized how ill equipped and poorly trained I am to care for victims of the disease known as terrorism.
Perhaps the training you are receiving and the work that someday you do will be more effective against terrorism. Understanding cultures, language and communication are more important here than management of airway, breathing and circulation. In the fight against terrorism, human communication has the potential to save more lives than all the surgeons and anesthesiologists in all the operating rooms in the world.
It's time for me to go back to airway, breathing and circulation. You - go read some Greek.
Mom
September 11 Email: Date
9/11/2002
September 11 Email: Subject
From a Mom to a college freshman
Collection
Citation
“email846.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 6, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/37551.