Snapshots of Haiti: a physician's relief work in a country in crisis

RC McKersie - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2010 - Annals Family Med
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. All told, more than 240,000
perished; another 200,000 were injured; and one-half of the city's 2,000,000 residents were …

[PDF][PDF] Reflections on Haiti: The role of hospitalists in disaster response

JT Crocker, GC Huang - Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011 - cdn.mdedge.com
In the last decade, natural disasters such as the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, Hurricane
Katrina in 2004, and the Pakistani earthquake of 2005 have brought attention to the …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid medical relief—Project Medishare and the Haitian earthquake

E Ginzburg, WW O'Neill… - … England Journal of …, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
On the evening of January 12, 2010, a few hours after the Haitian earthquake, the leaders of
Project Medishare in Miami began contacting Haitian associates, faculty and staff of the …

[HTML][HTML] Ministry of touch—reflections on disaster work after the Haitian earthquake

A Goodman - New England Journal of Medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
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[HTML][HTML] Recovering from disaster—partners in health and the Haitian earthquake

T Kidder - New England journal of medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
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Perspective: postearthquake Haiti renews the call for global health training in medical education

N Archer, PP Moschovis, PV Le, P Farmer - Academic Medicine, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Abstract On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced one of the worst disasters in human history,
a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, resulting in the deaths of approximately 222,000 Haitians and …

[PDF][PDF] Relief work after the earthquake in Pakistan: a Pakistani-American physician's perspective

H Farooq - Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
July 2006 251 times less than that of California and 14 times less than that of Texas. If Texas
and California were countries, they would rank seventh and eighth in the world on the basis …

[HTML][HTML] Returning home to Haiti—providing medical care after the earthquake

PB Delonnay - New England Journal of Medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
As I left an anesthesiology lecture on January 12, someone stopped me to ask whether I had
checked on my family in Port-au-Prince. When he explained that there had been an …

[PDF][PDF] The Haiti earthquake: disaster lessons and response from an emergency medicine perspective

S Lee, M Tenny - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine …, 2010 - escholarship.org
The 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010 left the capital city of Haiti in ruins, affecting over 3
million people. International aid has begun arriving in Haiti, but the situation remains critical …

Chicago medical response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti: translating academic collaboration into direct humanitarian response

C Babcock, C Baer, JD Bayram… - Disaster medicine and …, 2010 - cambridge.org
On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake in Haiti resulted in approximately 212 000 deaths,
300 000 injuries, and more than 1.2 million internally displaced people, making it the most …