"Dart Center Ochberg Fellows Sally Sara, an award-winning journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who has reported from conflict zones around the world, and Mike Walter, a senior correspondent for USA Today Live who covered September 11, 2011, are raising their voices about their own experiences covering trauma. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Sara described her time reporting from a Kandahar military field hospital as the most distressing of everything she had previously covered. At the hospital, she followed Canadian surgeon Marc Dauphin as he conducted surgeries on “horrifically injured children.” Sara spoke about Dauphin's breakdown in the initial story, and her own ethical dilemmas regarding when to keep filming and when to stop with patients who could not be saved. “You’re surrounded by people who are dealing with trauma and you wouldn’t want to make it worse,” she said in the interview...."
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