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  • it's true.

  • I was just going is look like someone, really?

  • You know, a painter artist was doing this without any soul, did knowledge or experience?

  • My name is all of Shapiro.

  • I was one of the first medical responders after Chernobyl accident Strand Place.

  • 16 years working for the FDA to develop drugs against radiation exposure.

  • Now I am going to review clips from Chernobyl, HBO.

  • Serious.

  • Okay, that's why in this clip, Waas tells one of his subordinates that if he is not going to follow his orders that he will be fired.

  • If the two of you disagree, then you don't have to work here and you want.

  • You won't work anywhere ever again.

  • I'll see to it.

  • This clip is very realistic.

  • Approximately two months after the explosion, I spent a total off about 30 days examining patients who live in the most contaminated areas in Ukraine.

  • We were told very strictly not to tell the population anything is wrong.

  • Our job was to tell them that everything is good, and if we see opposite, then we will lose our jobs and we would never get them back.

  • In this clip, a worker from the nuclear power station starts bleeding shortly after the explosion.

  • Oh, thesis is not realistic.

  • Radiation will lead to bleeding if patient developed acute radiation syndrome with a bone marrow failure, but this would occur in the first weeks.

  • Never on this spot in this clip population of prepaid is advocated by buses.

  • People were told that they're leaving only for three days, but they never came back.

  • Not all the bosses came on time.

  • Children and adults were all outside.

  • Their house is waiting for the buses they were playing in the radioactive sand, and the shower's off radioactive particles were falling on the ground.

  • I've heard this story from one of the mothers whose child I treated two years after a vacation from leukemia.

  • In this clip, Liliana offers stable iodine to a secretary to protect her from thyroid cancer.

  • Stable, hiding well, keep your side hood from absorbing radioactive idea.

  • Take one a day for someone they lost but tastes him.

  • I died will protect from thyroid cancer on Lee if it's given in the right time.

  • It's not clear how soon after the exposure, Liliana offer the secretary to take iodine, the maximum amount of time potassium iodide would be effective is about 12 to 18 hours after the exposure, the Soviet government started handling potassium iodide to Children 10 days after the explosion, and it went it was totally useless effort.

  • People went to the pharmacy where potassium iodine was over the counter and not knowing the door.

  • They just fed their Children with the pills.

  • If the doors were regiment is exceeded the normal it cause acute ulcers in the stomach.

  • In Kiev, I was called to the emergency room where parents brought Children bleeding from their stomach due to incorrect doze off potassium iodide.

  • In this, clearly the man is told to put on homemade armor.

  • Make these from Let's go, put her on on your balls.

  • You have to go hunting.

  • No.

  • Well, today's your lucky day.

  • You I mean, that ugly Armenian in the tens.

  • Girl to animal control.

  • Animal control.

  • Yeah, the radioactive.

  • They have to go.

  • Let is one off the most used metals that protect from radiation.

  • And you think this local armor would help the protect local area Animals were highly Kontinen ated, and nobody took care of them.

  • Tow wash them off.

  • So there was a here that they will spread the radiation around this clip.

  • Giuliana goes to the library and tries to obtain some technical information.

  • Yes, I need to see the following documents.

  • They're listed His permission commented She could have that one.

  • This is how so Your government thought less knowledge, more silence and less panic.

  • My boss asked me to collect information about radiation toe make a presentation in front off medical personnel at the largest hospital in Kiev just to give them the basic ideas about radiation and what to expect.

  • How to treat patients.

  • Nobody had any training in radiation.

  • Neither the medical school nor during our careers.

  • I enter the National Medical Library in Kiev and stared in this believe the empty shells with no books I as a librarian to provide me some books or journals about radiation and the answer's waas.

  • They received an order from the above toe Take all the books and journals off the shelves that contain the word radiation.

  • In this clip, a nurse warrants a pregnant woman not to visit her husband for you.

  • What do you think?

  • I have a pass.

  • You can't be here.

  • It's not safe.

  • I am here, Justin my husband for Silly Ignatenko.

  • He's a firefighter from Chernobyl.

  • I live here in the tank.

  • You is.

  • You can't.

  • I have permission.

  • I've You can see him for 30 minutes.

  • Not a minute more.

  • And you cannot touch him in any way.

  • Do you understand?

  • Room 15.

  • You're not pregnant, are you?

  • No.

  • People with acute radiation sickness.

  • They're not radioactive.

  • They're not contagious.

  • Toe adults toe pregnant women or Children.

  • The firefighter did not where his contaminated clothes and was showered after thes two.

  • He would not be in contagious or dangerous toe.

  • Anybody who is around him, it helps ankle.

  • Let me go.

  • You let her in that room inside the plastic touching him This false believes head a very dangerous outcome.

  • Many Children were educated to Moscow and many families in Moscow who were offer to hostess Children.

  • They rejected because they claim that these Children are contaminated or they call them dirty and they don't want them in their household.

  • In this clear, the Miller comforts her dying Senora Lieberman husband.

  • Okay, it's fine.

  • I was just going.

  • I don't think that this is a realistic Thio.

  • Have all these degree of burns and coloring and intensity all over the body.

  • I did not work the birth clinic.

  • However, my colleagues school did work in mosque and hospital.

  • Number six provided me with a pictures off radiation burns.

  • And I never seen anything like portrayed in this thes look like someone.

  • Really?

  • You know, a painter artist was doing this without any solid knowledge or experience.

  • In this clip, Juliana explains what happened to Radmila and her baby.

  • Do you know the name Vasili In tango?

  • He was a fireman.

  • He died two weeks after the accident.

  • I've been looking in on this widow.

  • She gave birth a car.

  • The baby lived for four hours.

  • They said the radiation would have killed the mother, but the baby absorbed it instead.

  • We live in a country.

  • My Children have to die to save their mothers.

  • Someone has to start telling the truth.

  • It's a medical fiction.

  • That fetus can absorb radiation.

  • There is no science behind.

  • It's not like my opinion.

  • I would say there is no science behind saying very inaccurate thing.

  • That fetus would absorb the radiation and die, but protects his mother.

  • But you know viewers who are watch who were watching this clip.

  • They believed my colleagues called me, asking if this is true because it was so not convincing.

  • But it was there.

  • It was emotional and dramatic and that what people felt.

  • It was ironic to me that next statement that gave from Juliana was We need toe tell the truth.

  • This is a postscript to the serious.

  • The number of 93,000 is largely inflated.

  • It's difficult to make a direct comparison between AH, race off cancer before and after Chernobyl.

  • The diagnosis is much better.

  • People are undergoing screening, which was not a case before, so in order to have correct number statistical significant, the large ape ideological studies used to be done and properly assist.

  • Sometimes it's matter to get the medical facts correct.

  • We cannot undo the past, but we can learn from the past.

  • And if it's ever a nuclear accident, our response to people from contaminated areas should be based on science, not on fear.

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