Short Hills Doctor Recalls Chaotic Scene After Boston Blasts
Martin Levine, a sports medicine doctor, tended to the injured after explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon.
Dr. Martin Levine was standing outside a medical tent on Boylston Street Monday afternoon, a half-block from the finish line, when he felt the violent force of the first blast. “Make way! We’re going to have casualties ... we need room,” Levine yelled into the medical tent filled with hundreds of runners. The 62-year-old Short Hills resident had taken the day off from his sports and family medical practice in Bayonne, as he has done every year for the last 19 years, to work the finish line at the Boston Marathon. He usually spent the day tending to sprained ankles, knee pain, shin splints and other common distance running injuries. But this year would be different. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on …
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