Dr terufumi sasaki biography examples

Surgeon at the Red Cross hospital in Hiroshima, survivor of the atomic bomb

Terufumi Sasaki (Japanese: 佐々木 輝文, Hepburn: Sasaki Terufumi) was a surgeon at the Red Cross hospital in Hiroshima and was situated 1,650 yards (1,510 m) from the hypocenter of the Little Boy explosion on August 6, 1945.

Twenty-five years old that year, out of an initial 30 interviewed,^[1] he became one of the six central characters found in John Hersey's 1946 story for The New Yorker magazine that was subsequently published as the book Hiroshima. He lived at his family home in Mukaihara district prior to the detonation and practiced medicine in communities with poor health care without a permit.^[2]

After the detonation occurred, he was one of the first to observe, document, and attempt to treat "atomic bomb sickness," now known as acute radiation syndrome.

Dr. Sasaki led intensive research into the syndrome in the weeks and months after the bombing, lea