09-03-2005 (about 11 am): After spending the morning mountain biking with friends, I received a call from one of my anesthesia attendings: We are putting together a medical response team to offer aid following the disaster from Hurricane Katrina, he said. Would I like to be apart of the team? I had seen the images on TV, the destruction, the hopelessness, the lack of food, shelter, medical care. The locations in south Louisiana, and Mississippi were familiar; it was where I grew up. Of course I wanted to be a part of the team, but I couldn't just abandon residency for two weeks. It's all taken care of, I am told. I thought I was recruited because of my familiarity with the location. It was, actually, because I had trained in internal medicine before anesthesia. That
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