‚Hundreds of wounded, sooty in blood-soaked clothes‘: My first shift in the ER – This was Dr. Sapir Bitton’s first shift as a psychiatrist at the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, and for 38 hours, she treated the countless number of wounded who arrived on October 7, while at the same time, she was extremely worried about her family who were besieged in Kibbutz Erez | ynetnews

Saturday, October 7. It’s half past five in the morning, the 23rd hour of my first shift as a psychiatrist at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. I walk tiredly through the empty hospital lawns, feeling quite exhausted: It was the first time I was on shift alone, a busy shift, without one single moment of rest or sleep. I made myself a cup of tea, thinking about the rest of the day. In the afternoon there is a Sukkot celebration in my kibbutz, Erez, and I haven’t made a cake yet. I wonder how the night went for Shaked, my husband, and the children, three-and-a-half-year-old Inbar and one-and-a-quarter-year-old Sahar. Their first night spent without me. The senior doctor in the emergency room tells me, „This shift seems like a jinx for you.“