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Tue Aug 30 21:38:40 BST 2005

These are great ideas, Ken, and I am sure many others will surface, but you are preaching to the choir here--saying these things on this list will not get anything done except waste our time--how can these ideas actually get to those who can implement them?  Then give us THAT address to send in all these ideas.  If we send this to any form of government or relief agency, they might as well be dumped in a waste bin for all the chance of them even being read....
ERF 

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From: KMATTOX at aol.com
To: errington at erringtonthompson.com; ccm-l at ccm-l.org; med-events at ccm-l.org
Cc: trauma-list at trauma.org; trauma-l at lists.aast.org
Sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:08:21 EDT
Subject: Opportunities

This is an excellent opportunity for each of us to put on our thinking caps  
and think about economic, medical, political and other issues which can help 
the  entire populace.   

1.    Move the hospital ships from Baltimore & San  Diego to Mississippi and 
Louisiana coasts.   The need for health care  is going to be long term and 
this could be a wonderful use of these ships.  

2.    We are spending BILLION$ of dollars in Iraq to  rebuild the 
infrastructure.   We have paid private industry, like  Halburton to participate 
in the 
infrastructure building.   We have  hired medical people to train and 
participate in some of the health care in  Iraq.    Political debate aside, 
there is 
concern that Iraq will  have a civil war with or without the presence of 
international  forces.    We do need to rebuild the medical, economic,  
industrial, 
etc. infrastructure of New Orleans, Southern Mississippi, Southern  ALabama, 
etc.    There is good logic to bring at least some or  even a big percentage of 
the troops, etc. back from Iraq to rebuild our own  infrastructure, while 
leaving advisors to fight the war on terrorism in  Iraq

3.    As we evacuate the hsopitals of New Orleans, the  many nurses and 
doctors and technicians, etc. who worked there so faithfully,  will be leaving 
the 
now dufunct hospitals to go to homes that no longer exist,  and to cars that 
will not run.   These faithful and hard workers need  to be rewarded and need a 
job and need a place to sleep, even if it is a  military tent or a military 
ship.    I think under FEMA these  doctors and nurses should be immediately 
federalized for 60 days at a time to be  part of whatever care needs to be 
rendered.      This  is probably the most doable of these three ideas and also 
probably the most  essential thing we could encourage.   

k
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