Hospital Update

If you have family in the VA Medical center in New Orleans, they’re in the process of being evacuated as I type this.
Call the VA Medical Center in Houston – they’ll be able to tell you if your loved one is there or in the process of being evacuated.

Michael E. DeBakey
VA Medical Center
2002 Holcombe Blvd.,
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 791-1414 or toll free 1-800-553-2278


45 Comments so far

  1. Anime Kat (unregistered) on September 1st, 2005 @ 11:12 pm

    Just caught a CNN live report on tv…

    Apparently buses that just arrived at the Houston Astrodome (which have been on the road for hours) are being turned away. They’re no longer accepting survivors at the Astrodome, but the reporter was NOT told where these folks were supposed to go instead. The response to Katrina is really turning into a travesty…Red Cross was reporting earlier that they’d prepared for thousands more to arrive at the Astrodome tomorrow, but now local police are turning them away????


  2. Mark (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 12:01 am

    Do you know if any wirless networks still work in the New Orleans? I thought if maybe we could get some phones to people so they can contact their family maybe they would be more hopefull.


  3. Mike Hoffman (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 12:58 am

    Apparently those being turned away from the Astrodome are headed towards San Antonio.


  4. Donna (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 1:06 am

    I received this today and it looks authentic, so I’m posting here. It’s from a doctor working out of the Ritz in New Orleans:

    Aug. 31, 2005

    This is a dispatch from New Orleans from Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist
    who recently moved from Wilmington:

    Thanks to all of you who have sent your notes of concern and your prayers.
    I am writing this note on Tuesday at 2 p.m. I wanted to update all of you as
    to the situation here. I don’t know how much information you are getting,
    but I am certain it is more than we are getting. Be advised that almost
    everything I am telling you is from direct observation or rumor from
    reasonable sources. They are allowing limited internet access, so I hope
    to send this dispatch today.

    Personally, my family and I are fine. My family is safe in Jackson, Miss.,
    and I am now a temporary resident of the Ritz Carleton Hotel in New Orleans.
    I figured if it was my time to go, I wanted to go in a place with a good
    wine list. In addition, this hotel is in a very old building on Canal Street
    that could and did sustain little damage. Many of the other hotels sustained
    significant loss of windows, and we expect that many of the guests may be
    evacuated here.

    Things were obviously bad yesterday, but they are much worse today.
    Overnight the water arrived. Now Canal Street (true to its origins) is
    indeed a canal. The first floor of all downtown buildings is underwater.
    I have heard that Charity Hospital and Tulane are limited in their ability
    to care for patients because of water. Ochsner is the only hospital that
    remains fully functional. However, I spoke with them today and they
    too are on generator and losing food and water fast.

    The city now has no clean water, no sewerage system, no electricity, and
    no real communications. Bodies are still being recovered floating in the
    floods. We are worried about a cholera epidemic. Even the police are without
    effective communications. We have a group of armed police here with us
    at the hotel that is admirably trying to exert some local law enforcement.
    This is tough because looting is now rampant. Most of it is not malicious
    looting. These are poor and desperate people with no housing and no medical
    care and no food or water trying to take care of themselves and their
    families. Unfortunately, the people are armed and dangerous. We hear
    gunshots frequently. Most of Canal street is occupied by armed looters who
    have a low threshold for discharging their weapons. We hear gunshots
    frequently. The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of
    styrofoam to access. We are still waiting for a significant national guard
    presence.

    The health care situation here has dramatically worsened overnight. Many
    people in the hotel are elderly and small children. Many other guests have
    unusual diseases. … There are (Infectious Disease) physicians in at this
    hotel attending an HIV convention. We have commandeered the world famous
    French Quarter Bar to turn into an makeshift clinic. There is a team of
    about seven doctors and PAs and pharmacists. We anticipate that this
    will be the major medical facility in the central business district and
    French Quarter.

    Our biggest adventure today was raiding the Walgreens on Canal under police
    escort. The pharmacy was dark and full of water. We basically scooped the
    entire drug sets into garbage bags and removed them. All under police
    excort. The looters had to be held back at gunpoint. After a dose of
    prophylactic Cipro I hope to be fine.

    In all we are faring well. We have set up a hospital in the French Quarter
    bar in the hotel, and will start admitting patients today. Many will be
    from the hotel, but many will not. We are anticipating dealing with
    multiple medical problems, medications and and acute injuries. Infection
    and perhaps even cholera are anticipated major problems. Food and water
    shortages are imminent.

    The biggest question to all of us is where is the National Guard? We hear
    jet fighters and helicopters, but no real armed presence, and hence the
    rampant looting. There is no Red Cross and no Salvation Army.

    In a sort of clich


  5. JB Tarver (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 1:23 am

    Does anyone have any information about the Tulane Medical Center, when do they plan to evacuwate


  6. miriam g garner (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 1:56 am

    TO ALL THE POEPLE THAT HAVE BEEN HURT OR LEFT IN THE HOT OF DAY AND COLD BY NIGHT. I AM SO SORRY AND I AM SORRY THAT THERE IS NOT THE THINGS YOU NEED IN THE TIME OF NEED. ALL I KNOW TO DO IS PRAY IN A TIME LIKE THIS SO WHEN YOU FEEL LOW AND YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING ALONE REMEMBER I AM FIGHTING ON MY KNEES AND SO ARE OTHER POEPLE AROUND THIS WROLD. I HOPE THE BEST FOR ALL OF YOU AND I HOPE THAT YOU ARE HELP WITH FOOD AND STUFF SOON I AM SO SORRY……MAY GOD HOLD YOU IN HIS HANDS TO THE ONES THAT HAVE LOST LOVE ONES THEY ARE LOOKING DOWN ON YOU AND THERE LOVE IS THERE TO HELP YOU GO ON MAY THE LOVE THEY GIVE YOU HELP YOU THOUGH A TIME LIKE THIS GOD BLESS THE U.S.A. HELP US IN ARE TIME OF NEED.. TO YOU ARE HOLD ON AND MAY GOD HELP YOU ALL


  7. seth (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 2:40 am

    So am I the only one so totallly disgusted with America’s response to this catrastrophy??? The only people left in NO are the poor black people……..if the Donald was trapped, or God forbid, Martha, well, they would’ve left before the hours went by, and THIS IS FUCKED.

    I canot believe how the median is makingthis into something else……we’ve made refugees out of normal americans-


  8. Matthew McKenzie (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 3:08 am

    I can’t speak to the rest of that doctor’s message, but for God’s sake, this stuff about the whole CBD having taken water is just plain wrong. I’m sure that doctor has the best intentions, but his info about all downtown buildings taking ANY water, much less many feet, is demonstrably false.

    Here are some facts: Most of the CBD between the River and Baronne Street was and is DRY. The vast majority of the Quarter, from Rampart to the River — DRY. Marigny and Bywater — DRY almost to St. Claude Ave. Don’t take my word for it, see the links below, read and view the pictures for yourselves.

    It’s bad enough that 80 percent of the city will need to be rebuilt and there are hideous numbers of dead in the flooded areas. Please, people, don’t make it worse by spreading worthless rumors that the city’s most vital and important business and historic districts were destroyed by water (which is what more than a couple of feet of water will mean) when it’s not true.

    The best source of direct, on-the-spot info about CBD, from a building at Poydras and Camp:

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

    A satellite image of NOLA, dated Aug. 31, the height of the flooding — see what’s flooded and what isn’t with your own eyes:

    http://www.globexplorer.com/disasterimages/images/new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_dg.jpg


  9. Gail (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 3:10 am

    Please know that there are those of us who starting e-mail campaigns to the FDA and the major pharmacutical companies to donate and send out much needed supplies, insulin and other meds to the affected areas.

    Put the power of your word into deeds by calling on these companies to forget about profits and take care of our own…


  10. Gail (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 3:13 am

    Please know that there are those of us who are starting e-mail campaigns to the FDA and the major pharmacutical companies to donate and send out much needed supplies, insulin and other meds to the affected areas.

    Put the power of your word into deeds by calling on these companies to forget about profits and take care of our own…


  11. Gayle (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 3:41 am

    9/02/05 3:30 A.M. cst
    The Astrodome can no longer take in anymore
    evacuees from New Orleans. The Houston Fire
    Department notified officials that we are at our
    maximum limits. Ten thousand others from New
    Orleans on the buses are being bussed to
    Reliant Center next to the Astrodome in Houston.
    Our prayers are with all, we realize it could
    have been us asking for help.
    Gayle


  12. Jessica (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 4:28 am

    I think its great they are finalyy getting these people out of the hospital and somewhere safe.


  13. john (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 7:25 am

    weeeeeeeeee asaka


  14. Matt (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 7:31 am

    well. today, we students here at deland highs school with the help of our other volusia county schools as well as staff are being asked to send a dollar per person to NEW ORLEANS to help with the hurricane relief efforts. i myself are sad for the people left in the wake of Katrina but are also kind of mad as well for the people who knew that this storm could be a killer but still sat and watched the storm come in. i mean i don’t mean to be rude or anything but people need to wake up. this city is on a plot of land that is a very low-lying piece of earth and they knew that if they stayed that they would be trapped and all the gangs and people are getting roudy and starting to complain about how the president can drop food to the people in IRAQ faster than the people in his own country and the truth is that were trying our hardest to help people but it won’t happen overnight. and people need to stop complaining so much and discover what really matters, LIFE! and once people discover that, they will see that they are lucky for just the shelter and the clothes on their backs. people shouldn’t have stayed to watch the storm, they should have left. i am truely sorry about this occurence but people need to wake up, what’s more important? people and life or materialistic possesions? the answer is PEOPLE AND LIFE.

    MATT SHEA

    DELAND HIGH SCHOOL

    Web Design

    P-1


  15. Andrew (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 7:33 am

    its good to see in this day and age that we still come together when someone is down. how great is it to be an American? My prayers are with all the familys and i hope for a quick recovery. GOD Bless

    what doesnt kill us make us stonger…..


  16. Dawn (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 8:12 am

    Reading the postings just underscores the urgency that some kind of coordinated rescue efforts be made—NOW—not next week! I am heartsick at the suffering and loss–we, who are fortunate enough to live outside of New Orleans, are sending prayers for peace, safety and relief to arrive asap. Let us know if there is anything we can do to assist without impeding the rescue & humani-tarian efforts.


  17. JH (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 8:29 am

    If you have asked yourself “How can I help?” with respect to what is going on… I have an opportunity.

    I just received an e-mail from one of the founders of the Katrina Help Wiki. They are going to be manning a 24 hour phone line (routed through LSU and Tulane to international volunteers) to start helping people try and locate missing family members/ friends/ get emergency information, etc.

    They don’t need people to man the phones, but they do need people to start trying to track down the following information:

    We are looking at numbers for shelters, volunteering coordination
    points, emergency evacuee transport info, missing/displaced persons
    that need to be located, etc. We also need to number to which we can
    call up and get on the hour situation reports on various affected
    sectors. We are welcoming all active BR volunteer network & social
    services numbers.

    There are numbers posted on the Wiki already, but we aren’t sure they are still active and they are just a portion of what is out there and being used.

    If you can do some legwork for us, make some calls or do some digging, we’d be grateful. Send any of your results to: katrinahelp[dot]info[at]gmail[dot]com.


  18. DCeiver (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 8:57 am

    Geez, Matt. That’s an awful lot of pissiness for being asked to give up a single dollar.

    A sizable amount of the people who stayed behind did not do so because they wanted to–they did so because they could not evacuate. If you have no car or no money to pay for transport, what do you do? You make a tough choice: face the hurricane at home or face it outdoors while vainly trying to walk from one end of the city to the other. That’s IF you can even walk.

    TO be sure, there were disbelievers, thrillseekers, and otherwise irresponsible people who are rueing the fact that they didn’t get out when they could. But you know what? Send the dollar. Remaining behind may have been a mistake, but it’s not a mistake that justifies suffering and starvation as a learning tool.


  19. D. J. Smith (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 9:03 am

    Dear Carrie of
    Calgary, AB, Canada

    Thank you for the information, and for taking the time out to show you care.

    D.J. Smith
    Inglewood, Ca.


  20. Samantha (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 10:27 am

    Can someone please post a link to a site that will help locate missing people from Katrina. (If there is such a site)

    Please help, I’m searching for my father.


  21. delfina (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:05 am

    how are you?
    i’m an italian girl.
    i living in Rome.
    i’m sorry for you….


  22. Ethel Carter (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:15 am

    I have contacted Emergency Rescue since Monday night begging and pleading to help my mother, Rosie Carter and sister, Fredlena Allen. My mother is ill with an open wound on her buttock, 83 years old, can’t walk due to osterparithis, COP, hypertension, and difficult breathing. The wound need to be clean everyday, she gotten infection once from the wound that sent her back to the hospital. My mother doesn’t have medicine, can’t walk and no food or water. Red Cross has not shown up to give her anything. The building my mother was living at evacuated to the Convention Center but she could not walk there, she and my sister (both ill). They are at my uncle’ s home located at 3316 Annunication St., tel #504-899-3616. If they won’t go get them, please tell me the route to get out of New Orleans. If you just get her out of New Orleans, I will pick up her from anywhere and take care the rest of my life with whatever resources I may have. She is pleading for me to get her out and I don’t know what to do.

    I know that there are a lot of us black people sitting in New Orleans begging and pleading for help. All of the people that are making the decisions for the people do not look like the ones sitting at the Convention Center or the Superdome. My mother needs a doctor badly and I don’t won’t to loose my mother while our government in the air flying in private planes, eating a decent meal everyday and sleeping with air everynight. We are tax paying citizens. We are black but we are precious in God’s sight. If we send military to Iraq to hunt in caves for someone the President want to get, why can’t we send military to move those people faster. Is is because that will be less money to feed the poor and less medical expenses. We have power to do what we want, when we want and for whom we want. The President are asking those people to be patient, why we not patient sending our military to Iraq to look for chemicals that never have been found, yet many died risking their lives.

    It is good that peoples, corporations and countries coming to the aid of helping the victims but those poor people on the street that are left behind will never see a dime of that money. It will go right back in the government’s hands to spend as they as they see fit, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I will be donating food and clothing but not money. I will take whatever money I have and help the ones that I know need help. The media show all the poor black people at the superdome and convention center and begin to wonder where the white people since I am from NO. The media shown this morning all the white people in trucks going to the airport and them getting off Delta where we are standing, sleeping and laying down on the street like animals. The country hasn’t seen all that God is going to do. He will handle all the Pharoh’s and their armies.

    Jesus I am waiting on you but I can not depend on the President or any government official to take of me or my family.

    Help please


  23. Lapresha Houston (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:34 am

    I just want to say that my heart goes out to those who where hurt in New Orleans. I also wanted to know if anyone was hurt in Lake Charles or any other parts of Louisianna?


  24. Rachel Wilson (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:47 am

    Why not have Dell/Mircosoft/Apple distribute laptop computers at each shelter/staging site and have the refugees input their names/addresses/status to create a central list that can be merged and posted on the internet? The current situation is ridiculous. Posting an appeal for information on people is far less effective. The refugees themselves can provide the manpower to do the keyboarding. There must be hundreds of refugees with the skill and desire to implement this suggestion.

    Thanks, rae


  25. Jess (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 12:14 pm

    I just listened to a radio interview between NO Mayor Ray Nagin and WWL-AM host Garland Robinette.

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html

    This shows a man who is not afraid to tell it like it is, who is fighting for the lives of his city’s people, and who (despite past differences that may have been had with him) is deserving of our respect.


  26. Dee (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 12:46 pm

    In response to the DCEIVER, we all realize that many family’s had no way to evacuate from New Orleans because of health, finances, etc. but, the fact remains that instead of coming together in this devastating tragedy, many of the people in New Orleans are turning to violence instead. Why????? Why would you shoot at a helicopter that is trying to rescue people???? We also realize that desperate people do desperate things, which is actually no excuse for some of the behavior that has been seen on TV. It is an overwhelming, horrible, unbelievable tragedy and the people that remain in the town need to come together. Instead, we are having to send armed forces in to make sure things are kept in order… I used to live in Lafayette and my son still lives there. It is close to my heart.


  27. patricia (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 1:35 pm

    Desperate people do desperate things. It’s sad but true . Imagine yourself in that scenario. The government had monthes to plan and prepare for dropping food to refugees etc, in Iraq.Do they just drop it anywhere , who will distribute it and protect it. I don’t understand why it’s taken so long to help people at the dome and why school buses couldn’t have rounded up all the poor and elderly folks before Katrina hit.I believe anyone with means ( black or white )would’ve left if they could .Hopefully this will change things for the better in future crises.Perhaps the rate of blacks stranded and homeless is more due to the ratio of the population and not just no one caring. I love all people and have cried much over this. There are poor people all over America , black and white etc. Anyone with any sense has to be terribly distaught for all the victims. We are all humans and Americans. Proper evacuation procedures for all people need to be implemented.What if we were invaded or hit by multible bombs and events ,how ready are we? So many things should’ve been handled better .All I really know is we all feel pain over everyones losses and suffering and are shocked and appalled at how slowly things are going , but please let’s don’t turn this into a race issue.Can’t everyone see the nations concern . People of all races are praying and trying to help because we all have homes , spouses children and loveones that we would never want to see suffer and we know every victim does too so our hearts and imaginations put us in the mindframe of what it might be like.Our Government isn’t perfect , we have much to learn from this .Organizing , planning and implementing relief doesn’t happen effortlessly or overnight. All votes are important to polititions so I’m sure everyone is trying to do good works just not to look bad.I think it’s a matter of inexperience and lack of forthought by government officials that is too blame and not an intended slight to minorities . We must address this situation for all future potential victims ( regardless of race , economic standing or whatever ) because nature is blind and doesn’t care who it destroys. A severe natural disaster or terroristic attack can happen anywhere anytime. God Bless all the survivors and their families , I’m making my donation today as many will and it’s because I care about humanity and the relief of suffering and I don’t care what color they are I feel for all my fellow man and fellow Americans. Please let’s don’t make this uglier than it already is .


  28. Steve T. (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 1:56 pm

    Dceiver hit it on the head. The simplistic posting from Matt shows his immaturity and lack of understanding of how the real world operates.Too bad there are a lot of others out there with his same sense of emphathy-some in our nations capitol. This catastrophy was not invited by these poor people, and we as Americans owe them as much help as we can provide. we would expect the same if the shoe was on the other foot.We don’t question the billions that leave our country to help the rest of the world, how can you justify being stingy with our own?


  29. Patricia (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 5:41 pm

    http://www.blogherald.com/2005/08/31/ hurricane-katrina-missing-persons-appeal/ Sabrina I found this for you. Patricia


  30. Kimberly (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 10:33 pm

    This disaster regarding Hurricane Katrina is defintely a RACE issue. These are poor black people and in the world’s eyes if you are a white person who is poor they consider you in the same way as they do poor black people. Don’t you watch the news and see babies dying both black and white, ederly people black and white (poor) without medicine, water, food sitting in that heat. Bush stayed on vacation and ignored what was going on, congress and the house of reps stayed on vacation, if this happen in a white or asian community then those people would have ALL been evacuated day one, you got people in the hospitals with no water, food, medicine, getting bed sores. This is a easy way for the government to kill off the poor people. You concentrate on the looting, if you were hungry and your kids were hungry you would loot also. Wake up! 400 years later and no progress we are still treating like 4th class citizens.


  31. Page in Santa Fe (unregistered) on September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:36 pm

    ROBERT “BIG BOB” CHADBORN-EMS/PATIENT TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR at EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL HOSPITAL?

    Fri/9-2-05: any news of evacuation of staff from East Jefferson General Hospital? Big Bob, are you out there? Please email OTPage@earthlink.net

    Thanks & Love to New Orleans!


  32. karen (unregistered) on September 3rd, 2005 @ 4:58 pm

    Can anyone please tell me anything on Jefferson hosp. I haven’t heard or seen anything on the news. My sister-in-law is there working. Her name is Carol Bayer a physician. Her children are very worried.thanks


  33. NOLA doc (unregistered) on September 4th, 2005 @ 8:53 pm

    i would like to post a comment regarding an earlier post from dr. greg henderson (the pathologist stuck in the ritz carleton hotel). i was personally there and involved, and i would like to point out some truths and discrepancies. yes, there were some dedicated HIV doctors from chicago and beyond working desperately to care for sick and injured patients in the hotel. dr. greg henderson was NOT one of them. he did not work in the clinic. he did not go across the street with the brave doctors to acquire medications and supplies. what he DID do was get caught red-handed by members of the medical staff in the clinic stealing narcotics and psychotropic medications for his personal use. he was asked to leave but was seen on multiple occassions trying to gain access to the clinic presumable to steal more pills. he was seen with an altered mental status outside the clinic. worse yet, on the last day when the hotel was being evacuated, he was seen ‘volunteering’ to see to it that the controlled substances were ‘properly’ disposed of so no one who found them would be hurt.

    he clearly has a drug addiction problem and anyone who knows him should direct him to drug treatment as soon as possible so he can not only help himself, but to minimize the risk of him injuring a patient. the state licensing board wherever he is licensed should be notified so they can investigate his addiction.


  34. Realist (unregistered) on September 7th, 2005 @ 2:19 pm

    Please this is a tragic situation, no matter what skin color the people are. This is not”lets forget about the po po blacks and the po po whities, this is good old fashioned mis-management. Look to the LA gov.
    I know these people who are still waiting for rescue were unable to leave(most of them) but when dealing with over a half million people, as harsh as it sounds, some will take longer to rescue. Shoot at the rescue worker, and hey, they are not about to rush in to help anyone if they have to dodge bullets. No one wants anyone to be left behind, starving, and dying. Well maybe those who shoot at the rescuers. But people are trying to get them out. Just stop playing the old race poor poor pitiful me card,,,,it’s getting real old.


  35. D Curran (unregistered) on September 10th, 2005 @ 8:00 pm

    My aunt & uncle were in a motorcycle accident 8/15. My aunt was killed & sent to the morgue in New Orleans. My uncle was taken to Charity hospital in New Orleans where he was on life support until he passed away prior to being evacuated 8/31. We are trying so very hard to locate their bodies. They aren’t John & Jane Does, but we can’t find anyone to help us. If anyone knows who we can contact for more information, please email me.

    Thanks,
    D


  36. D Curran (unregistered) on September 10th, 2005 @ 8:01 pm

    My aunt & uncle were in a motorcycle accident 8/15. My aunt was killed & sent to the morgue in New Orleans. My uncle was taken to Charity hospital in New Orleans where he was on life support until he passed away prior to being evacuated 8/31. We are trying so very hard to locate their bodies. They aren’t John & Jane Does, but we can’t find anyone to help us. If anyone knows who we can contact for more information, please email me.

    Thanks,
    D
    marry_us_2005@yahoo.com


  37. Celia Swender (unregistered) on September 14th, 2005 @ 4:03 pm

    I am writing to try and clear up an issue raised by an anonymous, vicious poster everywhere he could find the desperate email fired off by Dr. Greg Henderson: One of the first posts “from the front,” New Orleans during the flood. I first met Greg Henderson 25 years ago, and I can assure you, “Anonymous, Slyboots, NOLA doc” as he has styled himself, who is posting all over the web whereever he can find Dr. Henderson’s first courageous dispatch from New Orleans, could not be more wrong. I asked Dr. Henderson if Slyboots@aol.com comments were completely made up, or if anything could have even occurred that could have been misinterpreted. I asked him if he remembered “Slyboots” (God, doesn’t the name just say it all?) Here is his answer in his own words. Also his father and sister can say it better than I can, so I am forwarding their posts to you as well, in hopes that you will make every effort to correct the libelous accusations this cowardly poster is trying to disseminate.

    Thank you in advance for setting the record straight,

    Celia Swender

    From Dr. Henderson:

    He is a liar. I am pretty sure he was one of the docs who I worked with to set up the first clinic in the Ritz Carleton. They were the ones that high-tailed it out of town as soon as the Ritz Carleton got them a bus. They all seemed very impressed with themselves after they let me and the police officers and one of the pharamacists raid the Walgreens with gunpoint protection by the police. They set up a very nice little clinic and dealt with medication refills and some cuts and bruises for 1 day until they bailed out. Then it was left to me to, with the help of the NOPD, raid yet another pharmacy and restart the whole process again in the Sheraton and run it singlehandedely. This evolved to treating people under police guard at the convention center, and organizing the civilian medical treatment and evacuation station with the help of Northwest Medical Teams. Each of these efforts could have valued greatly from the presence of some of their primary care skills. I guess all while they were back home in their big city apartments slapping themselves on the ass for the daringly good job that they have done. In my opinion every one of them ran in the face of danger, and for that reason I consider them to be a disgrace to their profession. You can put me on the blog record on that one and send it on to slyboots himself. Hope the vision of the people who died at the convention center after he left doesn’t keep him up at night as long as it will haunt me.

    Dr. Gregory S. Henderson, M.D., Ph.D.

    From his father:

    Dr. Gregory Henderson is my son and to set the record straight he was a practicing pathologist at New Hanover Regional Medcal Center in Wilmington, NC. He moved to New Orleans in August to take a position as pathologist with Ochsner Foundation Hospital. He went to the Ritz Carlton on 8/26 for a planning retreat sponsored by Ochsner. This retreat ended at noon on 8/27 but he made arrangements with the hotel to return on 8/28 to ride-out the storm. My wife and I were in New Orleans and we evacuated his wife and two young daughters back to Jackson, MS. We have been in periodic contact with him and the information on the internet posted by him and the news media that have been covering the story is factual. I would hope that JT would post his name and address so that one might respond to his scurrilous and libelous comments.

    Julian C. Henderson, MD
    Father of a true hero

    From his sister:

    I would like to personally thank whoever is defending my brother, Dr. Greg Henderson. My brother risked his own safety to aid thousands and thousands of people at the Convention Center. Our whole family has been actively calling people and forwarding his emails in an effort to get him some help and to help him get out. He had the opportunity to leave several time, but refused to do anything for himself until the people at the Convention Center were evacuated. When help finally did begin to arrive on Saturday, he collapsed from dehydration and exhaustion. After 12 hours on an IV, he went back to the Convention Center to make sure people were alright — he stayed to assist with any patients coming in as people continued to be extracated from their flooded homes. Whoever thinks his messages are a for “his personal gain’, provides a clear example of the cruelty and cynicism that so permeates our society … the very type of cruelty that somehow facilitated the tragic stories coming out of New Orleans.”

    Katherine Michalak


  38. brenda (unregistered) on September 16th, 2005 @ 8:25 am

    what are you people doing??? there is dead people all over the city and you grown peop-le are arguing and name calling! GET A GRIP


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