9/11 Stories: Dr. Peter Ilowite
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Dr. Peter Ilowite is a dermatologist who was born in Manhattan, with both sides of his family being native New Yorkers. As a child, his dad would take him down to Greenwich Village, where they’d hang out with the hippies. This is a man who is passionate about his love for New York City.
On 9/11, Dr. Ilowite and his wife, a nurse, were living in the NYC suburb of Montvale, New Jersey. Watching the tv coverage of the attacks on The World Trade Center, Dr. Ilowite knew he had to help, just as he did in 1990 at the height of the NYC AIDS epidemic, when there was no treatment for the disease mysteriously killing gay men. Dr. Ilowite chose to do his year-long internship in the AIDS community, knowing his service would make him a better man and a better doctor.
Peter was so obsessed with getting to Ground Zero on 9/11, that when the military stopped him at Houston Street, blocking anyone from going further, Ilowite persisted. After showing his medical ID card to a truck driver taking rescue workers downtown, he hitched a ride on the back of the truck, where he ended up helping out at a makeshift triage center set up at Stuyvesant High School, joining 8 other doctors who also independently made their way to Ground Zero. There were no lives to save after the collapse of The Twin Towers, but they treated rescue workers, who had suffered burns, blister and lacerations. Hours later, The U.S. Army took over the medical triage. Dr. Ilowite estimates he spent just 12 to 24 hours at Ground Zero, but that short stay, breathing the toxic dust, was enough to worsen his lifelong asthma to the point that a case of flu years later almost killed him. His pulmonary function is so poor that at age 59, he qualifies to go on disability, which he refuses.
Severe respiratory illnesses and 68 cancers are scientifically linked to the World Trade Center dust, even if someone just spent just hours in the area on 9/11. No matter their prior medical history, victims are entitled to free lifetime health care in every state and, if certified with a physical 9/11 illness, compensation from the Victim Compensation Fund. Dr. Ilowite has no regrets. He and his wife now live in their beloved New York City.
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Dr Ilowite, I’m so sorry your family hasn’t been supportive of your actions that day. You are living your Hippocratic oath. By questioning your actions those who are physicians themselves have long ago abandoned that oath. Shame on them. It’s like… if you don’t want to help, at least don’t stand in the way of those who do want to help! I am sorry your actions that day worsened your asthma. Even if you don’t want to go on disability, at least cut down to part time work. It’s pretty hard working with chronic illness. I know that first hand. Yes, you should be proud of your actions that day. You helped a lot of first responders who were pretty darn traumatized and needed your help. SOMEBODY had to do that, right? That somebody was YOU! Thank you very much for sharing your story!
Thank you for your service Doctor. Prayers for you and your family. The Cabi is another example of our beautiful country and beautiful people in it. Never ever will forget.
@davidmudry5622
Жыл бұрын
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This guy is so unintentionally hilarious - the McDonald's part cracked me up for some reason. What a character
@jimmyboy131
11 ай бұрын
"I helped with skin issues but if it was someone else maybe who jumped off the building, that was way out of my league, they weren't alive anyway." LOL He just rolls with the train of thought. Great guy, I'm glad he survived and I hope for his best health.
Thank you for your service Doctor Ilowite! You are a blessing and a hero at such a tragic event
Dr. Ilowite, thank you for all that you did on 9/11 and thank you for all that you continue to do today. Also, you are a much needed doctor. A doctor who takes care of Skin is VERY important. The skin is the body's largest organ and very important to our health so thank you very much. Much respect and many blessings to you🙏🏽.
THANK YOU 🙏🏼 Dr. Ilowite for your Medical Service & Dedication To New York. Respect from Midwest Citizen.
A true hero who thought nothing about himself but put others before himself in order to save the lives of those who were affected by 9/11! Was no different than those firemen who walked into the face of danger in order to save the lives of others! Am so sorry his health was so impacted.
@rachmunshine9474
8 ай бұрын
I’m only five minutes and 12 seconds in but he’s already wipe his nose at least twice so I’m sure he has the runny nose/rhinitis I think it’s called that they all seem to have that were down there. Such a shame that such true heroics so many displayed that day are given the thanks of being so sick. And if not yet, they have to worry about it for the future.
Thank you for your help it's really that song "In a New York minute..." I've never been to N.Y. and I have to say "you're a brave man you did what many of us wish we could have done on that horrible day in our American history!" "God Bless you!"
@smooshiebear80
6 ай бұрын
I love Don Henley and the Eagles! That’s one of my favorite songs.
I'm proud of you, too!
You are so right! Those who suffer with acne or psoriasis or any skin problems, can be kind of pushed to one side by doctors who treat organs inside,as if their disorders are not serious, but they suffer and need sympathetic doctors like you. Don't mind the comments your family made regarding your risk taking. They may be right to scold you, but they shouldn't. You did what you did with the best of intentions, so try to ignore their criticism, and don't allow it to affect your confidence. It may be best to tell them that nobody knew the dangers, once the dust settled. It was a new situation.
💞✌🙏 Listening from New Zealand....
Thank you for all you did on 9/11. God bless you!
@davidmudry5622
Жыл бұрын
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Bravo, thank you.
He is a good man in a storm.... God okease bless him.
I'm surprised the military guards let him take pictures.
The desire to help humanity is innate for most humans... For the destroyers..the evil doers...well its call evil. Please think critically these days. Theres an agenda to control humanity. Dont sign up for it. Very limited major media consumption will be essential Love and help each other❤
I may be losing the plot, but I could swear that I went to school with you, Peter, in Englewood New Jersey...Possible?
Nachos from anchor?
Shocking that he didn’t remember what day of the week it was.
@heatherhamrick5631
2 жыл бұрын
Get a hobby kyle
@greeremalachi926
Жыл бұрын
Some people prefer not to remember the day they saw many people injured, dead and the dying.
@davidmudry5622
Жыл бұрын
God Bless USA heroes kzread.info/dash/bejne/fn6E17myadjao9Y.html
@californiahiker9616
8 ай бұрын
You’re very easily shocked!
A jew harp 😂😂😂😂 WTH 😭💀
@smooshiebear80
6 ай бұрын
No, it’s JUICE harp, not Jew harp.
@captainfoxheart
Ай бұрын
It's actually called a Jew harp, a jaw harp or a juice harp and yes it's an instrument. He didn't make that up and it's not a racist thing
@captainfoxheart
Ай бұрын
@@smooshiebear80it's also called a Jew harp or a jaw harp as well as a juice harp
This guy is strange. “What day was it? Saturday?”
@adams.1404
Жыл бұрын
Lol why is that strange? Most people know the day of the week it was, sure, but is it really the most insane minor detail to not immediately recall?
@smooshiebear80
6 ай бұрын
@@adams.1404I think it’s strange for people because for the last 22 years all the news reports have shoved down our throats how it was a beautiful Tuesday morning
@captainfoxheart
Ай бұрын
@@smooshiebear80well if you're ignorant just say that you've clearly never been through trauma and don't understand how it works and changes your mind especially to help you get through it and go into survival mode. Things like that don't matter and they fall away from the memory because they aren't important at the time and they are important to when and why it happened period a trauma mind doesn't focus on stuff like that it focuses on the meat of the situation
@smooshiebear80
Ай бұрын
@@captainfoxheart Thank you for the explanation, but I just said that’s why SOME people might find it strange. Please don’t assume things about others you haven’t met. Everyone experiences things like trauma differently.
This man is nuts. I ope he's retired and under medication.
@Meganmama
2 жыл бұрын
He’s what we might call eccentric. There are a lot of people like him. It’s just a bold personality, not anything to be scared of.
@ac5408
2 жыл бұрын
@@Meganmama 😊❤️
@oliviad8210
2 жыл бұрын
Seriously? He seems like a sweet, candid man. Maybe his erratic movements are due to a medical issue he has. Be kinder.
@greeremalachi926
Жыл бұрын
21 years later and we celebrate today those who lost their lives when Americans of all ethnic backrounds were attacked and died. They died at the WTC, in jet planes, as heroes fighting the terrorists, at the Pentagon and the volunteers who suffer now; from toxins. Your anger is strange.
@davidmudry5622
Жыл бұрын
God Bless USA heroes kzread.info/dash/bejne/fn6E17myadjao9Y.html