From: "Mark" 

I've been looking for a story I saw shortly before Geo. posted the sfgate
story, but can't find the url. It was about one of those same traveling
groups of doctors, but this group arrived at a location and found that the
set-up already in place was beyond what they could've constructed from
their traveling unit, even if it were needed...

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> It does sound crazy to me as well.
>
> Gary
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> Gary,
>>
>>
>>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/04/national/a123145D
82.DTL
>>
>> Among the doctors stymied from helping out are 100 surgeons and
>> paramedics
>> in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital marooned in rural Mississippi.
>> "We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took us 30
hours to get
>> here," said one of the frustrated surgeons, Dr. Preston
"Chip" Rich of
>> the
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That government officials
> can't
>> straighten out the mess and get them assigned to a relief effort now that
>> they're just a few miles away "is just mind-boggling,"
he said in a phone
>> interview.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Other doctors also complained that their offers of help were turned away.
> A
>> primary care physician from Ohio called and e-mailed the U.S. Department
> of
>> Health and Human Services after seeing a notice on the American Medical
>> Association's Web site about volunteer doctors being needed.
>> An e-mail reply told him to watch CNN that night where HHS Secretary
> Leavitt
>> was to announce a Web address for doctors to enter their names in a
>> database.
>> "How crazy is that?" he complained in an e-mail to his daughter.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Many other doctors have been able to volunteer, and were arriving in
>> large
>> numbers Sunday in Baton Rouge. Several said they worked it out through
>> Louisiana state officials
>>
>>
>
>

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