{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5b521060ea0f87c4606582b5/69165becc66f88b092f0344e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Feature Interview: A Ukrainian paramedic chats with Pawlina about the M.A.S.H.-style hospital he helped set up in Irpin, frontline tech innovation, and more","description":"<p>A Nash Holos Feature Interview with Nick Buderatsky, a patriotic Ukrainian volunteer who was mentored by legendary combat medic Taira and went on to become a civilian paramedic working on Ukraine's front lines, including Avdiivka and Irpin. </p><p>Despite being injured himself, he helped save countless lives — including in Bucha and Irpin, where he set up a mobile field hospital modeled after a M.A.S.H. unit (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) following the 2022 massacre.</p><p>He also is an IT specialist and helped Ukrainian soldiers innovate and improvise when western support lagged. </p><p>I met Nick back in 2015 when he took me to visit a Donetsk airport Cyborg in a military hospital in Kyiv. (Story <a href=\"https://youtu.be/IcLaB8Kipe0?si=gQ1uIALHaNy6r6k0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) </p><p>Originally aired in February, 2024.</p><p><strong>Disclaimer: </strong>References to “M.A.S.H.” are used in a descriptive, non-branded context to denote mobile surgical field hospitals. This podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by the M<em>A</em>S*H television series or its rights holders.</p>","author_name":"Paulette MacQuarrie"}