One of the things that Group 2 has been working on is assuring that there is some form of being certain that efforts in Haiti aren't redundant (if they do not need to be) and that they are effective. Some things being redundant do make sense.Read more »
This article on social media and the Haitian earthquake points out one of the problems that I was forecasting with the Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) project. Bear in mind, too, that I'm not just a geek. I'm a former Navy Corpsman who was BLS-I, ACLS, PHTLS, and administrated/supervised the NTC Orlando ED for 12 hour shifts. I also turned the other way when 2 juniors were racing wheelchairs in the parking lot.Read more »
A friend of mine - someone I met in St. Lucia in 2003 for CARDICIS - is in Haiti, and through a Closed Email List (CIVIC) was able to communicate his current situation. He's alive. Some of his family are not so well.
When he wrote the email, he was in a hospital with a boy who was apparently having a cerebral hemorrhage (trauma). I wish I could post his entire email here - but I can't out of respect for my friend. Read more »
