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Surgeons Shielded Their Patient as a 6.8 Earthquake Struck a Japanese Hospital

Security footage from Kumamoto General Hospital shows surgical staff covering a patient on the operating table during last month's magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Japan.

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This story runs because it restores dignity where spectacle might otherwise dominate, it turns the reader's attention toward a moment of human faithfulness rather than the force of the disaster itsel
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