Doctors Without Borders (Or Bias) In a Conflict Zone

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 22, 2015

This segment originally aired live on October 22, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on November 27, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

Deane Marchbein, president of MSF-USA (Doctors Without Borders), discusses what it's like to treat soldiers on both sides of a war, in the wake of a U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan earlier this month.

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