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A Sense Of Duty

W. Richard Boyte (wboyte@ped.umsmed.edu) is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

A NEWS REPORT on my battery-operated television told of a group of elderly patients evacuated from their Louisiana nursing home to a rural church-owned camp near where I live in central Mississippi. The camp, like most of the surrounding area, had been without electric power since Katrina released her fury two days earlier. The patients were stranded there and suffering from the relentlessly brutal heat. The television announcer reported there had been a death . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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