Doctor in Israel tells how ‘miracles’ help save lives of Hamas victims

Dr. Yoram Klein, director of trauma and critical care surgery at Sheba Medical Center, located just outside of Tel Aviv and the largest medical center in the Middle East, told me that he does not think in terms of medical miracles. But when I interviewed him on Doctor Radio on SiriusXM, his entire story was of miracles. 

Dr. Yoram Klein, director of trauma and critical care surgery at Sheba Medical Center, located just outside of Tel Aviv and the largest medical center in the Middle East, told me that he does not think in terms of medical miracles. But when I interviewed him on Doctor Radio on SiriusXM, his entire story was of miracles.

If that weren’t miracle enough, Klein went on to cite several stories of spiritual overcoming and survival against all odds. One man, Amichai, which in Hebrew means "my people live," held the door of the shelter where he was with both his hands while the terrorists were targeting him, his wife, and his six kids, Klein said:

"And he just held the door and absorbed all the munitions and gunfire they were aiming at opening the door, and they failed, and they just figured out that they are wasting too much time here and went to find families that were easier to kill – this cost him severe injuries, but he saved his family. He lost one hand, and the other hand, one forearm basically ... is severely damaged.

"He had a thoracic (chest) injury, facial injuries, head injuries, but he was treated – an army medic put a tourniquet on his hand, saved him from exsanguinating, he was flown to us, and we treated him, and I am happy to say that he survived, he is fully alert, he is communicating, and this morning he left my department to the rehab center."

The use of tourniquets saved lives on October 7, but also cost limbs because of the long evacuation time of five or six hours. By the time the patient arrived at the hospital there was irreversible damage to the arm or leg. "And nowadays, we are facing the second wave of complications due to these terrible injuries namely infections, tissue damage, renal failure."