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...September evening in 1999, Dr. Richard Carmona was driving to a University of Arizona football game in Tucson when he came across a traffic accident. A pickup truck had rear-ended a car. Carmona, a trauma surgeon and deputy sheriff on the local SWAT team, started to approach the truck when bystanders shouted that the driver had a gun. Carmona, who was off duty but carrying a pistol, called for backup and moved in, asking the driver to put down his weapon. The man was a mentally ill ex-convict who had murdered his father that day. He looked...
...Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, eventually becoming a decorated Green Beret. After finishing his Army service and earning his GED, he went to college and medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1985 he moved to Tucson and started the area's first trauma-care program. Since one stressful job apparently wasn't enough for Carmona, he joined the Pima County sheriff's office as a doctor and SWAT team member in 1986. "I doubt he's ever slept," says Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. "He doesn't have that in his nature...
...every case of martyrdom, there is a personal story of tragedy and trauma. A curious journalist once asked me to introduce him to a potential martyr. When the journalist asked, "Why would you do it?" he was told, "Would you fight for your country or not? Of course you would. You would be respected in your country as a brave man, and I would be remembered as a martyr...
...repeated scenes of violence, funerals and portraits of the dead are putting the population at large at risk of secondary trauma. With each new assault, many of our patients suffer a reactivation of earlier trauma. Others report feelings of great vulnerability because of their familiarity with a victim or their proximity to an attack. A colleague was shocked when her neighborhood cafe, which she had just left, exploded, along with its patrons...
Ilan Kutz is an Israeli psychiatrist and expert in the treatment of trauma. Sue Kutz is an American-born psychotherapist in private practice in Tel Aviv