Dr. Mark Perlmutter doesn’t mince words describing what he saw as an American orthopedic surgeon volunteering in Gaza hospitals. He calls the killing of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces “the worst pediatric homicide” he’s ever witnessed.
Perlmutter is one of three U.S. physicians who recount their experience treating the injured in the documentary American Doctor, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Poh Si Teng. Perlmutter is Jewish, Dr. Thaer Ahmad is Palestinian American, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is of Pakistani descent, from a family that follows the Zoroastrian religious tradition. The doctors from diverse ethnic and
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