Watch this video - Los Angeles County Urban SAR Task Force 1 personnel and Haitians chanting USA!USA! when they pull a survivor out.

I think I recognize some of the medics and docs (the guys in the blue helmets), people I've helped train. Almost as good as being there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7OXtze6CA

And France is already blaming the US for invading Haiti (and the french can go fuck a donut, for all I care about their opinion), I wonder what they will say about Israel?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3836254,00.html

The only surgical team there - experience in austere medicine really pays off. They also aren't scared by a little security threat, like the Belgians and UN. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/haiti.abandoned.patients/index.html

While I think Sanjay Gupta is pretty much a tool on CNN, when the chips are down he does a damned good job as a physician - he should get a Nobel Peace Prize (except he actually deserves it).


More good work by Gupta: One patient, a 12-year-old Haitian girl, even managed to receive brain surgery aboard, carried out by American neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, who was in Port-au-Prince to report on the humanitarian catastrophe.

The girl was injured in last week's 7.0 earthquake, and was diagnosed as having a 1.2-centimeter chunk of concrete embedded in her skull.

"The surgery went well," Gupta said afterward.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Haiti+floating+hospital+provides+succour/2458810/story.html

Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy smile