I Treated Chemical Attack Victims - Antidotes Should Be Made Available on Street Corners

"As an American Emergency Physician with over 14 years' active duty in the US Air Force and four combat deployments, I have treated a myriad of military and civilian victims including those from chemical weapons. I have in fact seen and treated virtually every type of war and civilian injury but nothing is quite a jarring as caring for someone burned by chlorine or choked by a toxic gas." - Vik Bebarta, MD, professor, emergency medicine- medical toxicology and pharmacology