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HURRICANE KATRINA Previous Volume 353:1550-1553 October 13, 2005 Number 15 Next

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The skyscraper housing the oldest continuously operating hospital in the country, New Orleans' Charity Hospital, was erected in 1936, to replace a centuries-old complex that had grown rapidly to keep pace with the health needs of impoverished southern Louisiana. In August 2005, shattered windows notwithstanding, this 20th-century Charity endured Hurricane Katrina's winds and survived. On Sunday, August 28, I was assigned as teaching physician for the infectious diseases unit on the ninth floor of the hospital. There were 18 patients in the unit, of whom 4 had active tuberculosis and 13 had opportunistic infections related to HIV infection and AIDS. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Berggren is an associate professor of medicine and an infectious diseases specialist at Charity Hospital and Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans.

An interview with Dr. Berggren can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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