LETTERS
IMAJ | volume 26
Journal 7, July - August 2024
pages: 463
Caring for children released from captivity: no pediatrician can be ready for such a scenario
1 Department of Pediatrics, Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2 Department of Neonatology, Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
3 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
4 Department of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
5 Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
6 Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
Summary
One of the most wonderful things in the practice of medicine is the endless opportunities to learn new things and encounter novel medical conditions and their manifestations. However, not all new experiences are necessarily welcomed. As we recently discovered, there are some medical encounters that no physician should ever face, because no patient should have to endure these encounters. That is, no person, and certainly no child, should ever go through the kind of cruel captivity we recently encountered following the horrific events of 7 October 2023 in Israel.