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Sat Sep 13 05:32:52 BST 2008

Make the administrators down some coffee, mountain dew and chocolate bars and not close their eyes all night and have them join the residents for am rounds as a reality check on what we do everyday,, not for PR once every few years.  DN
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Subject: IKE Houston 11:00 PM

Waiting room in our emergency room - EMPTY.     Last  shock room case arrived 
at 9:00 PM - car wreck victim with fx and a sub dural  hematoma.       
Ambulances NOT running because the  box of the patient compartment catches the wind 
and will turn over with winds of  >65 MPH.       In-hospital teams divided 
into  two groups - Sleep  group and work group.     We will  get no new patients 
before 6 AM.   Hospital is like a week end or  holiday day, except a lot of 
administrators whose physiology has never seen a  hospital at night.     

Winds are high,   Rain is sideways.     Fires  & Flooding in Galveston.   No 
Flooding in Houston  (yet).       

The hurricane is still 2 hours out in the gulf and has a wide  "eye".    
Winds at eye are 110 mph .    A  category 3 storm begins at 111 MPH.     

Over 400,000 homes in Houston without electrical  power.     

k

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