Iraqi Surgeon Returns Home to Help the Wounded Get Back in the Fight
"It’s very important for them to feel like they are back to normal again," Mr. Abadi told the doctor, speaking of the injured soldiers.
Have you seen ‘RoboCop’?" "Yes, yes, I have," Mr. Abadi replied.
Later, Mr. Abadi said that Dr. Muderis "shows that Iraqis are very resilient." Dr. Muderis, scion of one of Baghdad’s nine original
ruling families, escaped a brutal regime only to face what he described as a dehumanizing asylum system in Australia.
Swain said that He’s quite a character, to be honest,
He spoke to patients in rapid-fire Arabic, punctuated occasionally with a blunt word in English:
"Really?" One middle-aged man was missing one leg and struggling to make the other work.
God did this to you!" the doctor said in Arabic, only half-joking.
When he told one Iraqi he would have to quit immediately, the man gave the Arab world’s ubiquitous response: "Inshallah," or God willing.
