“We knew right away that we were going to get casualties immediately ... It’s like something out of one of those stampede scenes where suddenly a mob of people came charging into the ER.' Three New York doctors share what it was like to work during 9/11:
Sept. 10, 2021 -- It's been twenty years since sirens pierced the calm New York City morning and Americans struggled to absorb the TV images of smoke wafting from the World Trade Center, emergency medicine doctors mobilized to do what they train for: To save lives.But their mission that day affected them in ways they couldn’t have imagined, forever shaping their medical careers, and their lives.
The emergency room was small — just 10,000 square feet with a typical load of 100 patients a day. But the close-knit staff proved to be an asset as they set up stations and took their places. Additional doctors, nurses, and other hospital workers came, too, and Dajer directed them to posts. There was a suture station, an asthma station, and a trauma area. He estimates the ER treated about 400 patients in the 2 hours after the first plane hit, some of them severely burned as burning jet fuel plunged down elevator shafts into the tower’s lobby.
No one answered the phone, so he headed for the unit’s base of operations, where he ended up riding in the flatbed of a pickup truck carrying supplies to the World Trade Center site. They arrived just as the first tower fell in an enormous plume of gray smoke.
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