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THE LONDON ATTACKS — A CHRONICLE

Volume 353:541-543 August 11, 2005 Number 6
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Improvising in an Emergency
Peter J.P. Holden, M.B., Ch.B., F.I.M.C.R.C.S.Ed.

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Thursday, July 7, 2005. A hot, humid day for London, and all the windows on the third floor of the British Medical Association (BMA) building are open. A last-minute change of plans at 9 A.M. leaves me working at BMA House, preparing for a meeting. This is to prove fateful.

9:20 A.M. Colleagues begin arriving. There is more than the usual commotion from emergency-services vehicles. Ten minutes later, an emergency medical helicopter from the Royal London Hospital is hovering overhead. Newsflashes on our computer screens report power surges and incidents on the London Underground. We turn on the television: clearly, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Holden is a family physician in Matlock, United Kingdom, a member of the BMA Council, and a medical aircrew member on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.

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