Pictures from a photographer following an 26-year old ER physician in Baghdad. “On that morning, Dr. Zuhair was ending an overnight shift. The only doctor on duty, he had seen about two dozen patients in eight hours. The emergency room handles hundreds of cases a day, many war-related; the pharmacy is short of everything and the hospital has no telephones. Workers use cellphones to reach each other and the outside world.”
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