Questions about Katrina....for those who can handle it

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I get a weekly e-mail update from MedScape...it's a big medical info site and the e-mail usually has some good summaries of new trials, drug approvals, etc. Anyway, they also usually have editorials and some intersting articles. This week's article is a diary kept by a surgeon during the Katrina aftermath. He was from Madisonville, LA but he heard a plea from help from Charity Hospital so he set out of NO to help as soon as he could. I've only read the first day's entry (Wednesday) but it's very interesting so far. Here's the link if anyone is interested: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/512725?src=mp

If the link doesn't work (I'm not sure if you have to be a member) and you want to see it let me know and I'll post the text.

I'll tell you something else I learned recently. The patients who were evacuated to Raleigh and to Fayetteville....arrived without medical charts! They had patients, many who probably couldn't speak, dumped on them and they had no idea what their medical issues were, what medications they had been on, what procedures they had had done, what allergies they had. I think one Dr told me the first thing he looked for was some sign of insulin injections.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Thought this was well-put, mostly the bolded section. In regards to Michael Brown's testimony:

[Mona]

Bush and Cheney make me wanna

They are both worthless.. the country sinks down further everyday (economically) and neither of them care. If Bush had his way, he would have never visited the hurricane disaster areas.. everybody knows that... too dirty for him..

[Mona]

Not sure where to post this.. thought of you Angie first thing..

President Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the
classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and
their meanings. The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead
the discussion of the word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader
asked the class for an example of a "tragedy."

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a
farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills
him, that would be a tragedy."

"No," said Bush, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children
drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explained the president. "That's what we would call
a great loss."

The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the
room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a
tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room a small boy (Lil Johnny) raised his
hand. In a quiet voice he said: "If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs.
Bush was struck by a "friendly fire" missile and blown to
smithereens, that would be a tragedy."

Fantastic!" exclaimed Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that
would be tragedy?"

"Well," says Lil Johnny, "It has to be a tragedy, because it sure as
hell wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident
either."