Emergency Medicine

Special Team Ready to Mobilize for Disaster Relief

Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 10th, 2011

2011 AUG 10 -- As Bob Norris, MD, attended to victims of last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti, he was vexed by a question: What if he and his team had been able to get there even a day or two earlier'

"The more quickly injured people receive care, the more likely they are to survive," said Norris, chief of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

Although Norris and the seven other Stanford Hospital & Clinics doctors and nurses who joined him on the relief mission were among the first international medical responders to arrive, three days elapsed between the quake and their departure for the island nation. Those 72 hours...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2011-08-10)

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