Скачать или смотреть The 19-Year-Old Medic Who Decided Who Lives... Because the Doctors Were Too Busy

During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, 19-year-old Sergeant John Burch from Lynchburg, Virginia found himself performing battlefield triage at Bastogne with German forces closing in on all sides. After calling a doctor for the third time, the exhausted surgeon told him: "Sergeant, you've been trained well enough. You have to make the decision." From that moment on, Burch decided who received life-saving surgery and who was set aside to die. With no X-rays, surrounded by Germans who sometimes walked into surgical tents by mistake, and soldiers arriving with injuries so severe they'd whisper "don't cut my flag" as their last words, this teenager made life-or-death calls every few minutes for days. The doctors at Bastogne performed surgeries that medical textbooks said were impossible, but it was the 19-year-old medic sorting the wounded who became the invisible judge of survival.

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