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Palestinian American Masters Art of Healing in Israel

(San Francisco Chronicle) Matthew Kalman - Palestinian American Jubran Dakwar was brought up in San Jose and educated at the University of San Francisco, but when the time came to begin medical school, there was only one place he wanted to study - Israel. On Tuesday, he graduated from the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, the same college his father, Sajjiyeh, attended 30 years ago. The university hospital, Soroka, serves most of southern Israel and the Gaza Strip. Dakwar spent months treating Israeli soldiers wounded by rocket attacks and bombs in the intifada. In January 2004, while he was completing a surgery elective at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, a suicide bomber blew up a commuter bus, killing 10 people and injuring more than 50. "The hospital I was at received the victims of the bombing," Dakwar recalled. "The surgeons get the worst patients right away, so we were there on the front line." "The first victim was burned from head to toe," he said. "Another person was bleeding from the back of his knee....The surgeon stuck his finger deep into the guy's wound and pulled out a big piece of scrap metal."
2005-05-27 00:00:00
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