Hurricane Katrina Medical Relief

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Title Hurricane Katrina Medical Relief
Subject Disasters; Relief Work; Uncompensated Care; Uncompensated Care; Medical Volunteers
Description Led by anesthesiologist Steve Bott, M.D., a group calling themselves the University Health Care Louisiana Medical Relief Team donated time and services to aid residents of New Orleans in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The group embedded themselves at a makeshift hospital in a K-Mart store that became known as "Our Lady of the Blue Light." There Dr Bott and colleagues tended to the physical and emotional wounds of those impacted by the storm.
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Type Image
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Relation History of the Health Sciences Collection, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright © 2015, University of Utah, All Rights Reserved
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Relation is Part of How the West Won Medicine: Chapter 6
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Setname ehsl_hhs
ID 1207886
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh49c4
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