Journal 6 by Lexia Wilson

Part One: The character that has been the most interesting is that of Dr. Terufumi Sasaki. This has been the most interesting to me because because he is a doctor and that is what I want to do as my career. I thought what was the most interesting about his profile was that Dr. Sasaki didn't perish immediately when the bomb went off because he took a different train and car that morning so he arrived at the hospital at a time different than he normally did. Maybe this was fate because he was needed to help all of those people. He also for the most part unscathed when the bomb went off. Though when it did, "He ducked down on one knee and said to himself, as only a Japanese would, "Sasaki, gambare! Be brave!"" Due to the bomb some off the hospital had been destroyed but Dr. Sasaki found himself to be the only doctor that was not hurt. Thus far Dr. Sasaki seems to be a nice person who will do whatever it takes to save the lives of others. From reading about Dr. Sasaki you are able to learn that even under tremendous pressure by being the only unhurt doctor in the hospital and having all of these people flooding through the hospital doors, it shows great strength and dedication on his part as a doctor.

Part Two: The research question that I would like to answer is what were the effects of the radiation on the people then and now. The people that were closest to the bomb received the highest amount of radiation and died immediately or within the first day. If the people were further away from the center of the blast it took a little bit longer to see the effects of the radiation. How quickly the symptoms come on depends on how severe your radiation injury is but for those people who had a severe radiation injury they would begin to vomit within 1-2 hours, diarrhea within 5 days, swelling of the mouth and throat within 7, fever and hair loss within 8-9 days, and death within 10 days. Those people didn't has as severe radiation injuries there symptoms took longer to surface and they weren't as bad. For those people who had severe burns from the blast it took many months for them to begin to heal and when they did they did heal nicely, they would get keloids and the people could have been disfigured, and many other awful things. Even now the effects of radiation can still effect them through a higher risk of many different kinds of cancers such as leukemia, thyroid, breast and lungs. They could also be sterile, have birth defects in there children or have mental retardation.
http://atomicbombmuseum.org/3_health.shtml

Burns on a soldier that was 1 Km from the center of the blast.