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HERE YOU WILL FIND MORE PHOTOS from my trips to Haiti over the last two years since the earthquake. Warning: Some of the images are extremely graphic.
WE ARE HERE for the sake of each other–above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. This isolated, serene Caribbean island floated in a calm sea dusted by soft white clouds. We circled patiently, waiting to land for hours at 25,000 feet, watching the sunset across the wing of the Gulfstream jet carrying two orthopedic surgeons, [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. The country has one doctor for 11,000 people. Electricity and running water are available in Port-au-Prince for two hours — on a good day. The chief surgeon at the General Hospital (the largest public national hospital) told me that patients [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. Days 4 & 5 I slept through the aftershock this morning, a small 6.1 earthquake that has had no real impact because everything that could be destroyed was already destroyed. But the aftershocks that will ripple through the lives of [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. It is nine days after the quake, and last night three gaunt Haitian medical students, their school destroyed, came up to me in the dark as I walked past the nursing school with 150 nurses still buried in the rubble, [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. How can we measure the resiliency of the Haitian people who are the poorest in the western hemisphere with 55% living below the extreme poverty line of $1 a day? On a good day in Haiti, nearly half the population [...]
IMAGINE ALL OF the Federal buildings in Washington collapsing in less than a minute killing 30-40% of our government workforce, crippling the tax collection system leaving the government no money to pay salaries or overhead. Our government, which seems to barely work at full capacity with gleaming buildings and a gargantuan budget, would come to [...]
THE HORRORS IN HAITI in January 2010 hit me deeply, and the call for doctors, surgeons and medical supplies to treat the hundreds of thousands of wounded pushed me into action. There are few times in our lives when we can contribute to something larger than ourselves; the week of the earthquake felt like one [...]