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Early Disaster Response in Haiti: The Israeli Field Hospital Experience 5 May 2010 | 04:09 am
The Israeli relief effort in Haiti was widely praised for its efficiency and organization. Today Annals publishes an essay by team members describing the effort and lessons learned from the experience...
Disability Legacy of the Haitian Earthquake 17 Apr 2010 | 10:11 am
Annals recently published an essay in which Dr. Lisa I. Iezzoni and Dr. Laurence J. Ronan describe how Haiti's earthquake caused untold numbers of new disabilities across the age spectrum, from infant...
Report from US Navy Ship COMFORT 3 Mar 2010 | 09:50 am
Today Annals published an essay in which Dr. Edward Miller and colleagues describe what it is like to practice internal medicine aboard the US Navy Ship COMFORT in the aftermath of the Haitian earthqu...
I Had to Go to Haiti 19 Feb 2010 | 08:46 am
Today Annals publishes an essay, A Doctor Heads Home to Haiti, that describes the experience of Dr. Lionel Malebranche as he returned home to Port-au-Prince to find his family and help the sick and di...
Children and Families 10 Feb 2010 | 08:44 am
We are starting to see the progression of disaster-related injury and illnesses, among the usual mix of patients that present to the hospital. The disaster-related orthopedic injuries are just stagger...
Notes from the Field 5 Feb 2010 | 09:57 am
Reposted with permission from Caritas Christi Relief Efforts Tuesday, February 2nd Betsy Cobb, PT from Saint Elizabeth Medical Center Day 3 has been long but very rewarding. Dina and I worked from 8...
Christiana Care in Haiti 4 Feb 2010 | 10:20 am
I am Dr Lionel Malebranche from Christiana Care in Delaware. I am originally from Haiti and recently had the opportunity to go back to Haiti and help in the relief efforts. The situation was very crit...
Healing Haiti: Call for Papers 27 Jan 2010 | 10:11 am
It has now been two weeks since a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti and the situation is dire. In addition to inviting several physicians who are working in Haiti to submit updates to Annals’ blog, An...
HIV clinic GHESKIO in Haiti 24 Jan 2010 | 02:42 am
We have lost many friends in Haiti. Our HIV clinic GHESKIO has been transformed into a refugee camp, field hospital, and continues treating thousands of people with HIV and TB. The Haitian doctors and...
Medical Care in Haiti 23 Jan 2010 | 07:11 am
The rudimentary level of medical care in this poverty stricken country can only be appreciated by directly experiencing it. The ability to obtain any advanced diagnostic studies is extremely limited. ...
