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Volume 354:1549-1552 April 13, 2006 Number 15 Next

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On September 2, 2005, when Wildlife and Fisheries boats finally evacuated patients and staff from Charity Hospital in New Orleans, we could not fully comprehend the devastation of our health care infrastructure. Reflecting recently on the vast scope of the rebuilding effort, Fred Lopez, vice chair for education at Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine, observed, "The desperate week we spent inside Charity after Katrina is the one that everybody saw on CNN, but that was the easiest week of the last six months."

Immediately after Hurricane Katrina, our crisis was acute, our options limited, and our decisions necessarily . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Berggren is an associate professor in the Section of Adult Infectious Diseases and Dr. Curiel professor and chief of the Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.

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

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