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Last December, the job hunt broke him down. "The stress factor here is real different," he says. "There, I was worried about the dying, but that was it. They give you a plan and you do it. Here at home I have so many more things to worry about." He...
For decades, everybody in New Orleans knew the drill, from police and emergency medical responders to the patients who managed to get there on their own. In a mental health emergency, the destination of choice was the 24-hour crisis intervention unit at Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans, where...
But Charity - as it is still popularly known, even though the name changed to Louisiana State University Medical Center years ago - remains shuttered nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina, and is likely to remain that way. And with a handful of local emergency rooms forced to pick up the slack...
The crisis prompted Mayor Ray Nagin this week to issue an impassioned plea to Louisiana's Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, for a centrally located crisis intervention unit, either in a reopened third floor at Charity or in a designated section of University Hospital, an L.S.U. medical school affiliate that houses...
Jason H. Wasfy is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard. In June, he will begin medical residency at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital.