The horrifying images and descriptions of war-torn Ukraine are replayed on screens and over the airwaves. One Colorado doctor saw enough and decided to act. via CB_Cotton
"My thought was,"Who would I be not to do for these people what people did for my dad?"" said Marica Pook.
On April 2, Pook traveled to Poland to meet with other medical professionals from the United States. Once there, they delivered medical supplies, along with body armor and tactical gear that were donated by the Boulder County Sheriff's Office and the Boulder Police Department. "There was a surgeon who really needed something called a dermatome instrument," she said."A dermatome is a tool that is used to harvest skin for skin grafts, and they needed it because of the mine wounds."
Pook recalled using her own medical training on many Ukrainians, including one woman who had just survived a bomb attack.
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