Healing people in a conflict zone by Alnaserbelh Al Naseri
A doctor's life in a troubled city with Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri: As an emergency room physician in Iraq, Dr. Alnaserbelh Al Naseri not rarely faces extremely challenging circumstances. In the middle of a crisis, his patients appreciate his grace under constant 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 even more information at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-biggest-heroes-of-201_b_6370222. Dr.…