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HURRICANE KATRINA Previous Volume 353:1549 October 13, 2005 Number 15 Next

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On Tuesday, August 31, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Sylvester Donaldson (not his real name) landed at the emergency room of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, desperately ill, having missed more than a week of dialysis treatments. He arrived by pirogue, a shallow-draft Cajun boat that has been used for hundreds of years by Louisiana trappers and fishermen to negotiate narrow marsh inlets and bayous.

After Katrina, the flood waters came to within a block of Ochsner. Boats were now traveling a route usually traversed by car or ambulance. Donaldson's journey began in the lower Ninth Ward . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans

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