Opinion: The life-and-death history lesson that doctors aren t learning
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Opinion: The life-and-death history lesson that doctors aren t learning
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His mother was right: Now, Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself. I ve heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.
By birth and by choice, he personifies the theme of this year’s International March of the Living an educational program that coincides with Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day.
Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland. But for a second year in a row, Wednesday’s event took place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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President Reuven Rivlin (center) and others take part in the virtual March of the Living ceremony, April 8, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)
Like so many other mothers, Raul Artal’s mom insisted that he was going to be a doctor.
But there was a history and heroism behind her ambitions for him. A determined Jewish doctor in a concentration camp in 1943 delivered Artal in a barn, despite his feet-first position and saved the lives of both mother and son.
His mother was right: Now Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself.
“I’ve heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else” but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.