A doctor’s life in a war ravaged country as seen by Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri
Healing people in a troubled city by Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri: As an emergency room physician in Iraq, Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri frequently faces very challenging circumstances. In the middle of a crisis, his patients appreciate his grace under heavy pressure without realizing that his courage was forged as a patient, not in medical school. At 17, he was shot in the leg by a sniper. He could have caved under peer pressure and considered revenge, but instead, as he recently told a journalist, he remembered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous words, “Violence begets violence.” After being treated without anesthesia in an understaffed emergency room, he decided to pursue a career in medicine to fill an urgent need in Iraq. Read extra details on https://alumni.state.gov/alumni-story/theres-always-hope. Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri…