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Day Five

Benjamin Springgate

Ben Springgate (bspringgate@mednet.ucla.edu), an internist and pediatrician, is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. A native of New Orleans who attended Tulane University School of Medicine, he returned to Louisiana three days after Hurricane Katrina hit; he is still there, working on health projects in New Orleans.

THOUSANDS OF EVACUEES—tired, hungry, dehydrated, and anxious—are crowded inside the New Orleans International Airport when I arrive by ambulance at Concourse D. This generator-cooled portion of the terminal, with roughly four hundred patients, is the medical area created by the disaster medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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