Iraqi Surgeon Returns Home to Help the Wounded Get Back in the Fight<br />"It’s very important for them to feel like they are back to normal again," Mr. Abadi told the doctor, speaking of the injured soldiers.<br />Have you seen ‘RoboCop’?" "Yes, yes, I have," Mr. Abadi replied.<br />Later, Mr. Abadi said that Dr. Muderis "shows that Iraqis are very resilient." Dr. Muderis, scion of one of Baghdad’s nine original<br />ruling families, escaped a brutal regime only to face what he described as a dehumanizing asylum system in Australia.<br />Swain said that He’s quite a character, to be honest,<br />He spoke to patients in rapid-fire Arabic, punctuated occasionally with a blunt word in English:<br />"Really?" One middle-aged man was missing one leg and struggling to make the other work.<br />God did this to you!" the doctor said in Arabic, only half-joking.<br />When he told one Iraqi he would have to quit immediately, the man gave the Arab world’s ubiquitous response: "Inshallah," or God willing.
