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/ 19 February 2008

Iraq’s last brain surgeon refuses to budge

While many Iraqi professionals take advantage of the "brain drain" robbing the war-ravaged country of its best talent, one man has vowed to stand his ground and care for the brains that remain. With little money but a great deal of passion, Munir Faraj (40) is the last remaining neurosurgeon still working amid the chaos and sectarian barbarism that grips modern-day Iraq.