'The gruesomeness of what one man can do to another, it can be haunting.' An American brain surgeon whose family fled Ukraine 100 years ago has returned to help soldiers wounded in the war against Russian invasion.
. “Some of the traumatic injuries to soldiers we’re seeing every day here are unlike anything you will ever see in the United States.”Born in New York, Berlin is indelibly linked with Ukraine through his Jewish faith and his ancestors, who fled the country following a murderous, antisemitic pogrom more than 100 years ago. Today he believes he is the only neurosurgery resident from the U.S.
Berlin stresses that he does not want to be pejorative about the Ukrainian tools or staff using them; he wants to highlight the skilled, passionate people desperately trying to help but too often being overwhelmed. A Ukrainian Army doctor from the 72nd Mechanized Brigade tends to an injured soldier's wounds, in Donbas, Ukraine, on Feb. 22, 2023.It is only from his vantage point, in the region’s main head trauma hospital, that he has seen firsthand what happens when modern weaponry meets the trenches, tanks and land mines of old, deployed on a scaleEstimates vary, with the U.S. in November putting each side’s casualties at around 100,000.
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