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He was on his way to the lab to deliver a blood vial when the bomb went off. He somehow managed to be ideally positioned within the hospital to be uninjured though the vial of blood he was carrying did break. He ended up being the only doctor in the hospital who was uninjured. He spent the next several days working more or less nonstop in the hospital.

He was totally exhausted, but his one attempt to catch a couple of Z's was a massive failure:. By three o'clock the next morning, after nineteen straight hours of his gruesome work, Dr. Sasaki was incapable of dressing another wound.

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He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors—thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were in the yard and on the driveway—and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep. Eventually, he decided he had to head home to his mom's house to let her know he hadn't died in the explosion.

He slept for seventeen hours. In the longer term, he stayed at the Red Cross for a while, but then eventually he decided to open up his own private clinic in Mukaihara. According to Hersey, despite being a doctor and hibakusha, Dr.