Episode 229 - Feroze Sidhwa
The Cripescast Podcast
Charlie Berens
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Trauma surgeon and humanitarian physician Feroze Sidhwa has worked in healthcare systems across the globe. From volunteering in Ukraine to Haiti, from Zimbabwe to Burkina Faso, Feroze has seen it all. However, his extensive time in Gaza is what inspired him to write an open letter to the White House, detailing the humanitarian crisis he had observed there. That letter, signed by dozens of other doctors working in Gaza, was eventually published by the New York Times. This week, he joins Charlie on the Cripescast to discuss his open letter, the response to it, and more of what he experienced working as a trauma surgeon and physician abroad.
Keep up with Feroze on X @FerozeSidhwa. Check out GazaHealthcareLetters.org to read Feroze’s letter and to email the White House. Follow the Cripescast on all platforms @cripescast and check out cripescast.com for tour info, merch, and more.
Further information and resources regarding this episode:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmintdev/487/48705.htm
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206479861/israel-gaza-hamas-children-population-war-palestinians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/11/20/an-a-z-of-the-children-israel-killed-in-gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/middleeast/gaza-war-israeli-soldiers-ptsd-suicide-intl/index.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Kripescast. This is the podcast where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm your host, Charlie Barron's. And here's this week's episode. And also, we are powered by |
| 0:11.1 | Everlight Solar. Hey, guys, welcome to the Kripscast this week. My guest is Dr. Faroz Siddwa. |
| 0:16.9 | He's a trauma surgeon at San Joaquin General Hospital and has also volunteered his services around the world in conflict zones from Ukraine, several African countries to Gaza. |
| 0:28.4 | And today, Dr. Sidwa joins us to talk about what he has seen in his work around the world and also how you can get involved in volunteering yourself. |
| 0:37.3 | And I also want to mention off the top that some of what Dr. Sidwa saw abroad, |
| 0:42.2 | especially in Gaza, it doesn't necessarily paint the Israeli government or, frankly, |
| 0:47.8 | the Biden administration in the best light. |
| 0:50.0 | But what I just want to make clear is that there's a very distinct difference between |
| 0:53.7 | the Israeli government and Jewish people. |
| 0:56.6 | And I say that because anti-Semitism has become sort of a huge problem because people will not distinguish between the two. |
| 1:05.7 | There are many Jewish people that are against the Israeli government's handling of the war in Gaza, just as, you know, |
| 1:11.2 | there are many Palestinians who are against Hamas, just how there are many Americans against |
| 1:16.0 | various wars that America has been in. So anyways, I just think it's important to mention that |
| 1:20.2 | off the top. And also I want to mention that there might be, we ended up doing this as a two-part |
| 1:25.8 | interview because Dr. Sidwellwell he got called into work |
| 1:29.1 | um while during the first interview so there might be a little bit of overlapping content |
| 1:35.8 | around the middle of the podcast but it's all important info and um good stuff so with that said |
| 1:42.4 | here's my conversation with dr. Faroz Sidwa. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, thanks so much for doing this. Do you have any questions before we dive in? |
| 1:50.5 | No, no. Just nice to meet you. Yeah, nice meeting you too. So did you say over email that you're |
| 1:56.3 | from Flint originally? Yeah, I grew up in Flint. When I was 16, we moved to Texas, so I graduated from high school there. |
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