On today’s What Next, a Chicago-based surgeon has seen up close what Russian munitions can do, first in Syria and now in Ukraine.
As a Syrian American surgeon living in Chicago, Dr. Samer Attar felt compelled to be of service during the Syrian civil war, when doctors were being driven underground by Syria’s Russia-backed military. When Russian bombs began raining down in Ukraine this year, Dr. Attar once more raised his hand to cross the border and treat the war-wounded., associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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