dahr jamail on iraqi doctors:
According to the Iraqi Ministry of Health and UN statistics, Khattab is one of 18,000 Iraqi doctors and health care professionals who have fled the war-torn country since the US-led invasion began in March 2003. In 2003, there were 34,000 registered health care workers in Iraq.
(...) He told Al Jazeera that doctors are targeted in Iraq because they treat people who are sometimes fighters, militia men, or security personnel. Treating one group may anger another. "Dr X" said: "We receive dead bodies, blood, and innocent people, and sometimes people who are killers. "I remember I was sitting in my room in the outpatient clinic at my hospital south of Baghdad when all of a sudden two men arrived with machine guns looking for someone. They went into the patients ward and shot a man dead."