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Health Affairs, 25, no. 2 (2006): 478-480
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.2.478-a
© 2006 by Project HOPE
 
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Lydia’s Story

Jan Brideau


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Jan Brideau (jbrideau@partners.org) is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was in Louisiana 19–30 September 2005, as part of Operation Helping Hand, a group from Mass General that was based in Baton Rouge. It came to provide care, assess medical needs in shelters, and recommend plans for future medical visits.

JUST BEFORE LEAVING LOUISIANA I met a small, slender black woman. She was in her sixties, with her short gray hair neatly tucked up inside a kerchief. Let’s call her Lydia. An internist and I had traveled to a rural town’s shelter . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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