she's gone
he's looked like someone really you know
a painter or artist was doing this
without any solid knowledge or
experience
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my name is Alicia Pyrrha I was one of
the first medical responders after
Chernobyl accident
I spent less 16 years working for the
FDA to develop drugs against radiation
exposure now I am going to review clips
from Chernobyl if you're serious
okay let's watch in this clip boss tells
one of his subordinates that if he is
not going to follow his orders then he
will be fired the two of you disagreed
then you don't have to work here and you
won't it won't work anywhere ever again
I'll see to it this clip is very
realistic approximately 2 months after
the explosion I spent a total of about
30 days examining patients who live in
the most contaminated areas in Ukraine
we were told very strictly not to tell
the population that anything is wrong
our job was to tell them that everything
is good and if we say 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
ah
this scene is not realistic irrigation
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 the
spot in this clip population of prebate
is evacuated by buses
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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 houses waiting for the buses they
were playing in the radioactive sand and
the showers of 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
variation from leukemia in this clip
Juliana offers stable iodine to a
secretary to protect her from thyroid
cancer stable iodine will keep your
thyroid from absorbing radioactive
iodine take one a day for as long as
they lost but tease him I died will
protect from thyroid cancer only if it's
given in the right time it's not clear
how soon after the exposure Juliana
offered 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 at that point it was
totally useless effort people went to
the pharmacy where potassium iodine was
over-the-counter and not knowing the
dose they just fed their children with
the pills if the dose or regimen 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
this
stomach due to incorrect dose of
potassium iodide in this clip the man is
told to put on homemade armor we make
these from let's go up put it on on your
balls never go hunting no well today is
your lucky day
you mean that ugly Armenian and the
tents Darla's to do animal control
animal control yeah they're radioactive
they have to go let is one of the most
used metals that protect from radiation
and using this local armor would help to
protect local area animals we're highly
contaminated and nobody took care of
them to wash them off so there was a
fear that they will spread the radiation
around in this clip Juliana goes to the
library and tries to obtain some
technical information yes I need to see
the following documents they're listed
as permission only comrade
she can have that one this is how Soviet
government thought less knowledge more
silence and less panic my boss asked me
to collect information about radiation
to make a presentation in front of
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 at the medical school nor during
our careers I entered the National
Medical Library in Kiev and stared in
disbelief on the empty shells with no
books I also librarian to provide me
some books or journals about radiation
and the answers was they received an
order from the above to take all the
books and journals of the shelves that
contain a word radiation in this clip a
nurse weren't a pregnant woman not to
visit her husband for you what do you
tell you I have a pass we can't be here
it's not safe I am here to see my
husband facili ignite an Co he's a
firefighter from Chernobyl I know who
you think you is you can't I have
permission i-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 are not
radioactive they are not contagious to
adults to pregnant women or children the
firefighter did not wear his
contaminated clothes and was showered
after this - he would not be in
contagious or dangerous to anybody who
is around him in that room inside the
plastic touching him
this false beliefs had a very dangerous
outcome many children were evacuated to
Moscow and many families in Moscow who
were offered to host these children they
rejected because they claimed that these
children are contaminated or they call
them dirty and they don't want them in
their household in this clip the villa
comforts her dying severely burn husband
she's gone I don't think that this is a
realistic to have all this degree of
burns and coloring and intensity all
over the body I did not work as a burn
clinic however my colleagues who did
work in Moscone Hospital number six
provided me with a pictures of radiation
burns and I never seen anything like
portrayed in this these look like
someone really you know a painter or
artist was doing this without any solid
knowledge or experience in this clip
Ileana explains what happened to Ruud
Mila and her baby do you know the name
Vasili in a tango he was a fireman he
died two weeks after the accident
I've been looking in on his widow she
gave birth a girl the baby lived for
four hours they said the radiation would
have killed a 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 fetuses 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 yours
her 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 came from
Oriana was we need to tell the truth
this is a postscript to the series
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the number of 93,000 is largely inflated
it's difficult to make a direct
comparison between race of 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
statistically significant the large
epidemiological studies needs to be done
and properly assessed 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