Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The World Trade Center Attack Eye witness: observations of a physician on the outside looking in. | Critical Care December 2001 Vol 5 No 6 Chalfin Review The World Trade Center Attack Eye witness observations of a physician on the outside looking in Donald B Chalfin Director Division of Research and Attending Intensivist Department of Emergency Medicine Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn New York USA Correspondence Donald B Chalfin dchalfin@ Published online 6 November 2001 Critical Care 2001 5 310-311 2001 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Having personally witnessed the destruction at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 this paper presents my personal feelings and observations as an observer of both disaster and terror. Aside from the unimaginable horror as a result of the carnage a feeling of helplessness was particularly prominent due to the inability to be able to care for casualties since most victims were fatalities. The passage of time has enabled a return to normalcy however normalcy carries a new definition due to the vastness of the tragedy and the sudden threat of bioterrorism and other weapons of mass destruction. Keywords terrorism During his historic trip to West Berlin in the early 1960s John Fitzgerald Kennedy stated that the plight of the citizens of West Berlin was the plight of the world and as such we had all become Berliners. In that vein we all became New Yorkers on 11 September 2001. We also became Washingtonians Virginians Pennsylvanians Bostonians San Franciscans and Los Angelenos. In short we had all become connected as victims. A personal chronology I saw the events of 11 September 2001 unfold. Perhaps one day a better wordsmith than I will coin the superlative that will capture the collective numbness that overcame us all. For me amidst the relative comfort afforded by the edgy passage of time that facilitates a more thoughtful retrospect one thought that seems to have been particularly predominant on that day was one of helplessness. Like so many other physicians and .
