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Doctor shares experience, lessons, 6 months after Boston bombings


 

It's been 6 months since the Boston Marathon bombings, when two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated just before 3 p.m. on April 15, killing 3 people and injuring more than 250.

That afternoon, Dr. Bryan Canterbury, an emergency physician at Whidden Hospital, Everett, Mass., was a few feet away in the medical tent. He ran to the finish line to help scores of patients on the ground, and he shared his experience with us in a phone interview a few days later.

We caught up with him recently to find out how to the Boston bombing affected him and his practice of medicine.

Dr. Canterbury said that he hasn’t been able to bring himself to listen to that original interview (see below). He said he might be able to listen to it after the Iron Man Hawaii, which took place Oct. 12, and marked a "mental 6-month out for me," he said.

Visit our Storify for more medical stories from the event.

–Naseem S. Miller

nmiller@frontlinemedcom.com

On Twitter @NaseemSMiller

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