tv Interview RT June 30, 2013 4:46am-5:01am EDT
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with relatives helping. if they'd just been to the dentist i realized that man has unlimited potential. human conditions i could have saved. but. 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. for surgery. really well. the defect was very challenging. but nevertheless an extremely good result. more than you might have noticed.
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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. swollen then of course that'll go down it will get better. you see the
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left side of the moz was badly deformed now it's totally different the lips different too you can see how after the operation the child has changed. the worst 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 rest of the next life. you know rest in this one. soon she's too good to see my face you do it i started doing judo and sambo in one
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hundred seventy six contributes a good way to restore energy it also helps with concentration curing surgery 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 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.
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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 find a gun i mean above my head and my feet to scare me. and then they held a shari'a hearing. they said i'd sold out to the russians. if. they were about to shoot me i thought this is it. or they but suddenly the wooden gate opened and. they opened up the back and started pulling out injured guerrillas in camouflage gear shouting ways the doctor
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the doctor well my execution was postponed i had to attend to them thinking if they'd 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 get over to.
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live with 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. they found me and. there was one doctor with them who said. i can see all the horrors of war in your face.
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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 i had problems. then i had total amnesia the whole 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.
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used to go to church three or four months time but now since becoming an american citizen i have more opportunity to spend time there last year i spent eleven months in chechnya. this is how i have lived for these last years. i really mean. whenever i leave chechnya. my conscience torments me. i had this idea i want a mission. i want to bring a medical team to chechnya to work here he. brought teams from boston before twice. operated on
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two hundred twenty children in just those two trips to chechnya. going. yes i'm a home. wow . since. i'm 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. actually i can really see myself
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in really got the shape of my ears and i've always said you've got cauliflower ears sometimes. the 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 and. to say they feel bad or that life is hot. we consider it shameful even a disgrace when people grumble. we don't show our emotions. we keep it all inside.
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and they were ready to do anything for their country to reach. is to love the country more than yourself if you join the military for any other reason that you're probably not 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. however good people get hurt. hurt good people. silent. a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because. i saw some people who died. there is cheaper than therapy.
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