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As a U.S. Army colonel he spent three years in Baghdad,
was wounded by an insurgent mortar round and once donated
blood while operating on a soldier. Jazarevic also set up the
receiving hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where wounded
U.S. soldiers are flown from Iraq. While on call, he sleeps in an
Airstream trailer in the hospital parking lot.
SAVING LIVES
Recently eight people came in at once after multiple rollover
accidents. “When eight people come in it looks impossible,
but we can do it,” says Jazarevic. “Everyone is going
home.”
When a 19-year-old man came in after a motorcycle accident,
nurses couldn’t find his face. “Anthony would not have
survived transport,” says Lisa Sharot, nursing supervisor for
the trauma intensive care unit. “He had such facial fractures
we didn’t think he would make it. Dr. J saved him with a pair
of scissors.” Jazarevic immediately cut open the man’s throat,
inserted a breathing tube and stabilized him.
“Anthony was so sick,” Sharot says. “There were a couple
of days when I left and I thought I would come back and he
would be gone. Four weeks later he was walking around and
two weeks after that he left.”
Another man got caught on top of a fence. When paramedics
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