CHAMPAIGN (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - An Illinois doctor just recently returned to the U.S. after his fifth trip to battle-scarred Ukraine.
Dr. Judah Slavkovsky is a Champaign-based general surgeon with Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
“Ukraine has a tremendous burden of trauma related to this ongoing war,” Slavkovsky said.
His trip was organized by MedGlobal. Slavokovsky was one of four physicians who went to Ukraine on a three-week trip to provide medical relief as well as help train local doctors.
He told WBBM Ukraine is certainly not the world's only warzone, but it does have some advantages over other areas of conflict.
“Ukraine actually has quite a few doctors, quite a few surgeons…My team has the great fortune of not having to start from scratch,” Slavkovsky said.
But as skilled as Ukraine's doctors are, American doctors have a certain unique, unfortunate expertise to offer.
“It’s a strange truth that American trauma surgeons perhaps are better equipped to deal with war than trauma surgeons from, say, France or Germany, in a way, just because their level of violence is so significant in this country,” said Slavkovsky.
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