{"id":25633,"date":"2016-06-09T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=25633"},"modified":"2016-06-09T02:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T08:05:52","slug":"new-england-of-medicine-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=25633","title":{"rendered":"New England Journal of Medicine on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/New_Eng_Med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25635 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px;\" alt=\"New_Eng_Med\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/New_Eng_Med.jpg\" width=\"77\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>Most respected medical journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The New England Journal of Medicine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 just published an article on the war in Syria bringing a different view on this controversial issue:<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'>\u201c<em>Where\u2019s my mom?\u201d a boy asked as he woke from surgery. Both his legs had been amputated when a missile hit his home in Aleppo, Syria. His mother had died in the blast. It didn\u2019t take him long to realize the answer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every time I have volunteered to work in a field hospital caring for Syrian patients, I witness similar horrors and come back with nightmares. It gets worse with each trip. And whereas I never stay more than a month, Syrian physicians have endured these conditions for years \u2014 many working in caves and basements under persistent siege and bombardment. Each day is the same: cleaning mutilated wounds, amputating obliterated limbs, and watching people die in overcrowded emergency rooms with pitiful resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1603673#t=article' class='small-button smallblue' target=\"_blank\"><span>Read Whole Article<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most respected medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine,\u00a0 just published an article on the war in Syria bringing a different view on this controversial issue: &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25643,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions\/25643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}