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I didn’t hear the cars screech to a halt, but one of the trauma nurses did. He ran outside with two emergency department medics to find several people in a car, all of their clothes soaked with blood. The passengers were screaming for someone to help the young man in the front seat, who was unresponsive. The team threw the limp victim onto a gurney, one of several that stand waiting for these types of scenarios, which occur almost nightly at our trauma center.
Dr. John Pryor died on active duty in Iraq on Christmas Day 2008. He wrote this essay following his first tour of Iraq in 2006 and it was published in the Washington Post in 2007 (http://www.drjohnpryor.com/John_Pryor/War_in_Philadelphia.html). This book is dedicated to him.
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Pryor, J.P. (2011). The War in West Philadelphia. In: Brooks, A., Clasper, J., Midwinter, M., Hodgetts, T., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ryan's Ballistic Trauma. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-124-8_3
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