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Jane Petro has patched up gunshot victims, has witnessed a shooting just feet away from her - and has been shot at by a sniper.
You sort or expect that when you travel out of the country as she has to areas that were considered less than friendly (Beirut, Lebanon) or were controlled by guerrillas (Colombia). The plastic surgeon's experiences with flying all happened while she was serving her residency in Louisville, as in Kentucky.
Mending the cleft palates of children in rural Santa Marta, Colombia, is a far cry from the cosmetic procedures she performs in the pristine surgical rooms of Westchester County hospitals.
Petro honed her skills as a surgeon after leaving her hometown of Erie, Pa., and receiving degrees from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fa., a., and Pennsylvania State. University College of Medicine in Hershey. She then went to St. Joseph's. Infirmary in Louisville where she was an intern and learned the art of ducking. Guns were all over the city in the early 1970s and the resulting gunshot wounds were a natural outcome. One early morning, Petro emerged from the hospital only to go diving for cover as bullets whizzed by her. She took refuge under a car until dawn when police were able to kill the gunman.
She learned plastic and reconstructive...