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What One Doctor Can Do to Prepare. (Three Steps To Volunteerism).
Your community is not prepared for a medical response to a terrorist attack.
Public health experts interviewed in the immediate aftermath of terrorist bombings in New York and Washington advise civic-minded physicians to take three steps to improve local readiness for a possible terrorist attack:
* Help to rewrite your local hospital's emergency response plan.
* Consider volunteering for a Disaster Medical Assistance Team.
* Educate fellow physicians and legislators about the need to protect hospitals from lawsuits if their actions are in keeping with the executive orders of the governor during declared state of emergency.
What is clearly needed, according to Dr. Richard Hoffman, is a massive reengineering of how hospitals respond to disasters, as well as how individual physicians and other medical professionals ready themselves to act in the event of a local disaster.
As former chief medical officer and state epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Health, Dr. Hoffman was involved in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bioterrorism exercise in which Denver was the scene of a staged bioterrorist attack.
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...create Wisconsin's first Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a mobile hospital...terms, a DMAT provides medical assistance to injured survivors...recommendation that the Disaster Medical Assistance Team be created. "It...
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- Magazine article from: Pediatric News DEMOTT, KATHYRN DALES, MARY JO October 1, 2001 700+ words
...plan. 2. Consider volunteering for a Disaster Medical Assistance Team. 3. Educate fellow physicians...nationwide activation of the National Disaster Medical System's 80 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams of more than 7,000 private...
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...plan. 2. Consider volunteering for a Disaster Medical Assistance Team. 3. Educate fellow physicians...nationwide activation of the National Disaster Medical System's 80 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams of more than 7,000 private...
