(NEWS) Israeli MD's Suck It Up, Treat Flotilla Terrorists

"'In a few minutes, we understood that they are really the terrorists who were brought to our hospital,' Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Hadassah's director general, recalled in an interview last week.

'For me it was not an issue,' said Mor-Yosef, who was in the District Tuesday to attend a symposium at the National Guard Association. 'I didn't respect [the Turkish patients] and I don't agree with what they did ... but at the same time, I wanted to provide them the best treatment possible, and to cure them.'

'Nobody said, 'I don't want to treat them.' Nobody found an excuse to go other places,' he recalled. 'Everybody knew the helicopters were on their way and came to the trauma unit. And the minute they knew [the patients] were from Turkey, the treatment was [delivered] as expected on a professional level.'

'More than 25' of Hadassah's employees lost relatives in violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada, he explained.

Despite the tragedies, Hadassah's medical professionals 'continued to work, and to put on the white coat. And the minute they put on the white coat, they act like professionals and try to put emotions aside.'"