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…Drs. Robert Kelman and Howard Korman pose by a Michigan-donated Israeli ambulance. HARRY KIRS BAUM Sta ti2-iter D r. Howard Korman remem- bers workinc, b on his "patient" in the 90-some- thing-degree Israeli sun, performing an intubation while wearing a rub- berized protective suit. The thick rubber gloves were too bulky to get a good feel as he snaked the breathing tube past the vocal chords and down the patient's throat. And although the...…
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