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cut. cut. if. i believe clay is the perfect material it's a live. working with the demands perception. you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. was that before getting to work you have to study the material watch it over try to figure out what it looks like then the image comes to you.

when i'm operating. the moment i make that first incision. when i touch the tissue i can feel the patient's carry through i have. i can sense the person very well. my life has changed a hundred percent. for four years. all i saw an awfully blunt. and mutilated bodies. are not the same for some that i was before the second chechen war i have an absolutely different outlook now nothing surprises me anymore. communion my last name is by a of my first names for some of them i come from from cola

a small village in the czech republic i'm a plastic surgeon in mensa as a fight to as a woman in during the war i had to perform surgery in the polling conditions and i had to fight for its life. over those two years i operated on four thousand six hundred people but during the second war i literally had no time to keep a record. but i know i did at least twice as many. of the worst thing though is that we badly need more specialist in chechnya because so many people left during the war. in europe now. many people wait and hope that i'll

come and operate on them for free. will she then eleven eleven. but i nominate kreiter yes as she was crossing the street but on the road on the road what year was that it was ninety ninety five we've waited and waited for you know but we couldn't find you close your eyes or just here and yes that's an can be removed. able to see it now you won't see it at all you can remote it yeah. so what interest in chechnya today there is so many children and adults of colds who need to be given corrective surgery after the war.

over and why for. i'm afraid to turn on my cell phone and. there's no telling what's going to. have to delete fifty six texts at once now i have another thirty six new fans out of memory. the grapevines working word is spreading. my husband. she's known him for many years and she knows he's a good man and a good surgeon and so she suggested i turn to him. well

you got here ok. what a pretty. of course this is a little complicated. they came from the south and. i first saw them about six months ago. i told them they were going to have to wait because there wasn't enough to show yet you for your kind now we can operate. of course when parents interest those tiny fragile bodies into your care which is a huge sense of responsibility. to be used like geometry numbers and we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide to your future and then we begin to come out to try and restore

a normal form initially which it's very intricate work. you need very sensitive hands like a surgeon you could say. there was when you get to work you study the material figure out what it looks like. clay it's like skin. smooth when it's too late for it then it gets older and starts to sweat out sold which then dries it up and then eventually it cracks and it's.

this huge it was back in two thousand and nine moving very different in the west when i was driving through the stuff or mystical about two hundred kilometers from the city there's a chain. yup and it mainly stopped me. from the police officer took one look at my passport and said so how's your home village doing. several. hundred. he said he'd been a mercenary in chechnya. as a grain silo there he said that big ten are. still there i told him i'm a good. while he said we will post it on top of it i'm shooting down in the village and when the support gay said we'll talk about it go about doing it and that village. was a crazy doctor it was a how was it possible he sent for him to set that night and day you mean operating

under fire. service when it was over the first ball there's a new bullet and we had no doubt the be a second. when you. had a mini van i used it as an ambulance. i took out all the seats opened up the back and put in mattresses that's how i transported the injured to here. i was the only doctor of five villages so. i thought to myself who i work with this morning. i soon learned that out of ten doctors. i was the only one left along with eight nurses.

and we have nothing at all. no hold water no heat no electricity. it's rained down on our heads. windows were blocked up with sandbags the were no windows. and this was the operating theater and the walls were scarred by shrapnel but there were mines are filled operating table here. just a very small table. with more than i usually can get a battery from a car would use that of what i thought was as long as i had a flashlight and a working battery and i had a good enough environment to work and. we had none of the proper surgical instruments we needed. we performed amputations with a simple metal hand saw each and used a hand drill for craniotomy. and of course every day was horrific in its own way.

that arm with the most horrific day of all of course was when i was in a state of shock. that was in two thousand. four thousand people walked across the minefield. but one hundred ninety of them were left on the minefield they all died and three hundred people were brought to my hospital. somewhat shemale the silence was among them along with other terrorist leaders and i am putative his right leg he lost a lot of blood his pupils were dilated and his blood pressure was fifty over forty . yeah we went to the same school i make no secret of it i've never hidden the fact

we played football together we spent ten years at the same school board. i'm not the almighty i can't predict what the future might hold for. no dust or anywhere else north or. it's not my role to judge whether one person is good and another bad all what they might do i just don't have that right they have to deal with their own conscience. i have no regrets i would regret it if i hadn't stayed and done what i did during the war when i saved lives.

where. sometimes when i visit my village you know maybe for a funeral or other times. just to see friends. yes. right try. to avoid going. near the hospital.

or pollution because. you know i think what happened here. no matter how much time passes. it will was. of course fresh in my memory but. what happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and violence remain to egypt attempts to escape chaos and leave it wallowing even deeper. egypt i here in chaos.

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looked good that was back in two thousand and gerry the fair friend. he went out of the house and at that moment a tank shell exploded. like this father died just torn to shreds. and he was badly wounded a miracle he survived you know what your movie had shrapnel injuries in his hands had to amputate two fingers. he also had shrapnel wounds all over his back. i hope the day never happens again. it's because of how. he saved my life.

much. people just went home. with relatives helping. they went. to the dentist i realized that man has limited potential. human conditions i could have saved. and they were so confident that i could help but of course. i was never able to say . i can't help you in these conditions. i have no right to say that.

surgery. really well. the defect was very challenging. but nevertheless an extremely good result. more than you might have noticed. that she looks completely different now. every successful operation leaves here with a great sense of satisfaction. at the same time you can believe me operating on children is a very very tough job. the body is so fragile. the anatomy is totally different. thank god in this case there was enough to shoot to rebuild the lip and those.

and then of course that'll go down it'll get better. you see the left side of the nose was badly deformed now it's totally different the lips different too you can see how after the operation the child has changed when they were so happy with the outcome we're very grateful to him we did right to come here even though we had been afraid we'd heard of her son's golden hands and now we know that it's true. yeah you just finished with. i'm tired. of the whole

rest of the next life. you know rest in this one it. seems she's too good is that you might do if they started doing judo and sambo in one hundred seventy six i'm sure contributes a good way to restore energy it also helps with concentration of curing surgeries some of my younger colleagues often wonder how can i stand still for seven or eight hours staring at one point while i operate. strategy on the mat. if your nervous system is weak you burn out and lose but if you're a strong you'll win. sometimes you get to the final and you're sure you're going to win. only a few seconds left but your opponent has nothing to lose and really goes for it lost out a few times to a painful throw or a choke hold. on one fine day about five hundred men arrived at four in the morning

and surrounded the village and hear that it was there it was one hundred percent certain that the slaughter. he was well aware that a.p.c. is brought into russian soldiers here every day. grabs me drags me down the corridor also the no one could see but everyone did. they fired a gun i mean above my head and then my feet to scare me. and then they held a shari'a hearing. they said i'd sold out to the russians. they were about to shoot me i thought this is it. or they do but suddenly the

wooden gate opened and. they opened up the back and started pulling out injured guerrillas in camouflage. ways the doctor the doctor well my execution was postponed but i had to attend to them if they come in minutes even seconds later i would have already been dead. when i watched this occur it doesn't feel like me at all. it's someone totally different someone i don't know. now i often think how could i have survived all that. we did which is.

the eyes reveal a person's character. his eyebrows dipped down and he looks really tired shit because if he's reminiscing about the past to explain and he's looking at you but at the same time he's somewhere else. you thought it was a matter of a few international organizations heard about my human rights watch amnesty

international physicians for human rights and you know if. they found me and. there was one doctor with them and who said. i can see all the horrors of war in your face. yeah and they took me to america where i was in rehabilitation for six months. i was in a terrible psychological state. i felt as i was about to explode i started getting gastrointestinal bleeding. it was a big fire oid problems. then i had total amnesia. bunch of health problems came out. it took four years in the u.s. just to repair my health. and i really missed my work i missed it so much there were times when every night i dreamed of

performing surgery of course i knew perfectly well that someday i'd be back at my place on the operating table. and now i am. used to go to church for months time but now since becoming an american citizen opportunity to spend time there last year i spent eleven months and. this is how i've lived for these last year. long empty words i really mean this. whenever i leave chechnya. my conscience torments me. i've had this idea we would i want to hold it as

a mission. i want to bring a large medical team to chechnya to work here he. repeatedly and i mean. i have brought teams from boston before twice both when i believe. we operated on two hundred twenty children in just those two trips to chechnya. going. yes i'm home. while. since. i've hired you. i don't know how it is for surgeons but for me the important thing is to get the

shape right. i know i have plenty of material to help me start over but you have to get it right on the first attempt. thankfully i can really see myself in really got the shape of my heroes and i've always said you've got cauliflower ears sometimes. my son has seen what we've all seen here but like an artist he has taken it all to heart. and the chechens don't like to complain. to say they feel bad or that life is hot. we consider it shameful or even a disgrace when people grumble. prevent show our emotions. we keep it all inside.

wealthy british style half past one time to time. margetts why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not going to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the

past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but however good people do get hurt. and i've heard good people empty silent. a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because i. i saw some people who had died and. there is cheaper than therapy. on our. choose your language. because we know if. someone. chooses to use the consensus he can. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories that in high school might choose the access to off his.

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