Friday, September 02, 2005

Inside the ER: Summit Hospital, Baton Rouge

From USNews.com

Dave Miller, a registered nurse and the director of the emergency room at Baton Rouge's Summit Hospital, worked virtually nonstop from Sunday through Wednesday, breaking only twice—once for a two-hour nap and once to run home and turn on a generator when the power failed. Summit's waiting room was full of people who couldn't go home or be sent to shelters, which were already full. And the patients kept coming, from evacuated hospitals in New Orleans, from that city's shelters and its streets, and "from every place you can get them," says Miller

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