THE MOST INCREDIBLE ORTHOPEDIST YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT (Orthopedics This Week)
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“Hasta la vista, baby.”
The day that Munjed Al Muderis, M.D. fled his native Iraq he held in his heart a vision of a future à la The Terminator. Dr. Al Muderis, now an internationally acclaimed surgeon and developer of the Osseointegration Prosthetic Limb, was on the run from Saddam Hussein’s government.
He told OTW, “I was happy in Iraq. I had always dreamt of being a surgeon. At the age of 12 I saw The Terminatorand I was transfixed by the medical possibilities of technology. ‘I want to make those limbs for people!’ I thought. Witnessing the agony of so many Iraqi veterans only strengthened my resolve to go in this direction.”
Then one day he arrived at work only to be asked to perform an outrageous, revolting task. “I was a resident at Baghdad University Hospital. One day Saddam’s Republican Guards descended upon the hospital with three busloads of military defectors. The surgical team was instructed to surgically remove the ears of each of these men. When the chief surgeon protested, he was dragged outside and killed. Then the soldiers asked if there were any other complaints.”
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