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According to Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Sport Medicine website, “The ACL…stabilizes the knee to allow pivoting, twisting, and jumping sports.” When the ACL is torn, then, “the knee may feel unstable and give out. The knee usually swells a great deal immediately (within two hours). Over the next several hours, pain becomes more severe and it becomes difficult to walk...
After spending a month volunteering with the Department of Defense and Project Hope in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 42 employees from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital—returned this past weekend from the tsunami-stricken region...
While some relief efforts have focused on repairing the vast physical damage, the team from MGH spent most of their time working with survivors...
According to another participant, Robert L. Sheridan, the MGH physicians performed approximately 120 surgical operations for ailments such as soft tissue injuries and fractures. The doctors and nurses also provided care for hernias, tumors, trauma, and chest infections from untreated pneumonia—pervasive medical problems that existed before the tsunami struck...
...were really lucky to be able to go...but you have to remember there were a lot of people back here who made it possible for us to go,” he said, adding that MGH was very supportive of its volunteers, offering to pay half their salaries for the time they were gone...