tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164151552011-06-08T02:18:31.000-04:00This blog provides a forum for Duke Medicine volunteers serving with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts to update members of the media, colleagues and each other.Duke Medicinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155466478943279915noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16415155.post-1129037269814509442005-10-11T09:14:00.000-04:002007-02-27T09:40:33.313-05:00

My two deployments to Waveland, MS are two of the most wonderful experiences of my life. The devastation is like nothing I have ever seen. From the air it doesn't look real, but it is very real. One can only imagine pulling into your drive to see only a pile of rubbage, usually not theirs. Theirs might be located blocks away. Over and over, we heard their horror stories of floating off their

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Larry Tucker, R.N., and Mississippi governor Haley Barbour at the mobile field hospital.

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Sorry for this being long - the team doesn't have access to the internet and I am now home, so I will fill you in on what has happened up to today.We worked along side several governmental agencies to set up an incredible 500 bed field hospital. Unfortunately, we learned that the patients were reluctant to leave their local areas - even thought there may not be much left. So, we made plans to

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Hello to all: Sorry I have been remiss in posting regularly, we now have more reliable Internet service. The relief team arrived here at the Field Hospital at about 0245 Saturday morning, got a brief orientation and off to bed. The Day shift went on duty at 0700 and saw one of our busiest days yet, treating nearly 300 patients. It was great to see the fresh troops come on-board....and it was

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Greetings from the disaster zone! We are in a parking lot in Waveland Miss. We have set up a field hospital in the parking lot of a K Mart that was under approx 33 feet of water. We arrived here late Sat night and worked all night to set up a perimeter and begin triage ops. We found many bodies in the flooded out buildings here in this area. Conditions continue to improve each day. We are seeing

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(Editor's note: Doctors, nurses and other clinicians from Duke were flown by a government-chartered jet to Meridian, Miss. to help staff a U.S. government field hospital being established at Key Air Field, a National Guard post. The Duke team will serve under the direction of the NIH. Equipment for the hospital is being brought in by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. )Right now we haven't

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"Things are going well down here. We treated about 100 patients again yesterday. The Duke SMAT is doing mostly triage work and we're primarily working the day shift. Living conditions get better each day - - we've managed to create washtubs for the team from some materials we brought down with us. The internet isn't working too well just yet, but we should have land lines up and running by the

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(Editor's note: At 3:00 p.m. Sunday, a team of five nurses and technicians from Duke University Hospital and Durham Regional Hospital arrived in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, near Gulfport, as part of a larger contingent that brought a 100-bed mobile hospital to the stricken community. The Duke personnel are part of a 100-member medical team drawn from hospitals and EMS agencies across North

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