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It’s 2025, and Dr. Sasha Satanovsky is in New York pursuing a spine fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
She’s miles away from the Hadassah Medical Organization, where she went to medical school and completed her residency in orthopedic surgery.
And a world away from the tragedy of October 7, 2023. But the memories stay close.
She had been studying for her boards and went to sleep, awoken that morning by blaring alarms on her phone. As a reservist in Gaza, the chief surgeon for the IDF’s division there, specifically, she had all the alarms set for that area.
“Something is off,” she said to her husband.
Dr. Satanovsky was charged with orchestrating and maintaining medical care for the soldiers.
How many ambulances are available? How much medical equipment is at hand? Where are the wounded? Where should the ambulances and helicopters go? Dr. Satanovsky had to map it all out — and all while her base was being attacked.
She looked to Hadassah for the supplies she needed, such as blood units and the equipment that goes with them and plasma.
It was “a great relief knowing that they got my back even when I'm out there,” said Satanovsky.
“As a young person looking to study medicine … there were only four places that you could go in Israel, and Hadassah stood out as the place to go.”
