This text came in from Dr Menon at 630pm. As a reminder, he has military training and served in Afghanistan—-

Anil Menon – Day of work is over, life will never be the same, I have never confronted so much pain, fractures, gunshot wounds, amputations,  and so many we had to send home. I’ll try to email. The smell of bodies was everywhere and unforgettable, people with broken limbs were so numb they don’t cry

Anil Menon, MD is a clinical instructor at Stanford School of Medicine focused on surgery and emergency medicine. His research interests are Aerospace Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Wilderness Medicine. He graduated from Stanford Med in 2006, received a degree in mechanical engineering in 2003 and became a full ER doctor in 2009. He has practiced medicin in combat in Afghanistan and will be practicing aerospace medicine next year at NASA. He’s part of a team sent to Haiti by Stanford.

This entire series is chronicled under the HaitiDrDispatch tag

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