"Dr. John Pryor a trauma and critical care surgeon at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania has been killed in Iraq where he was serving his country as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps...."He once wrote an editorial in the WAPO pointing out that he had a lot of experience treating combat deaths...in West Philly:
More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa....You haven't heard about this tragedy because it happened to inner-city poor people in a crack house in Philadelphia. Imagine, for a moment, if this had occurred in a suburban shopping mall or if a Marine unit in Iraq had been involved. There would be shock, outrage, 24-hour news coverage, Senate hearings and a new color of ribbon to wear. That double standard, that triage of compassion and empathy, is why the war on the streets continues unabated...
sigh I know...been there, done that...Photo from Philly.comDAVID M WARREN / Staff Photographer
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