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Patients and we have been waiting for some good news. and good news one of the patients has been discharged is wonderful to hear. we hope for the continued improvement of the other patients still there. yesterday, you told me about the types of injuries you are treating. i can't remember the exact terminology you used, but it was severe tissue damage. they had been shot severely. what do you have to do to treat injuries like that? >> well, as a trauma system, what we have to do is first initially recognize which are the most severely injured patients. the moment that they come to a hospital an...

Cares so much about their well-being. i know you have been watching the stories that we are now hearing. yeah, go ahead. >> i'm sorry. i just want to interrupt and i know you kept saying you, but i really, really want to stress that i am the person talking. there are hundreds of people, my trauma surgeon partners, my specialty partners. it was an entire team of people or trauma system that came together to save these lives. i don't by any means want you to or anyone in america to think that one person can do this. slightly not. this is the work of a trauma system that were able to discharge th...

Quarters to get them medical supplies and get our patients. >> yes, that ripple effect is quite concerning when you think about where the war started last month. the world health organization warned that ukraine was already running low on medical oxygen, insulin, cancer drugs and other supplies. and that was before some of the major cities were encircled and hospitals were shelled. i can only imagine it is even harder to get supplies now. is even possible now to get those supplies in to those who need it, without some kind of cease-fire? >> yes, you know, the american college of emergency phys...

Been talking with our colleagues. they are in ukraine. it seems like that something that really is a difficult situation in terms of getting the medical supplies in, and it is -- trauma patients and trauma victims require a lot of resources. oxygen, blood, tetanus shots, antibiotics, a surgeries, and all of that, no trauma system, not in the united states can be sustained unless it is reece applied on a continuous basis. essentially, what we have in ukraine right now is a continuous mass casualty event as after a mass casualty event. so unless major changes are made in terms of an agreement to...

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