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Buck Taylor (BTaylor@chphealth.org) is director of the Gallatin Community Clinic in Bozeman, Montana, and is a volunteer fire captain/emergency medical technician. He was in Louisiana 5–10 September 2005.

MAKING USE OF MY five-year-old’s frequent flyer miles, by September 5 I was part of a Seattle-based nongovernmental organization medical team standing outside the New Orleans Convention Center. The scene was eerie. Debris and refuse went on and on, as far as the eye could see, often in small hills. Guarding the grand building was a New Orleans police car sitting on rims, stripped of its contents and dignity. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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