With limited resources physicians must pick and choose who must receive immediate medical attention and who can wait, ... In a triage setting, patients with minor injuries or sickness are given a green arm band. Those with moderate afflictions receive a yellow band and those in the most immediate need of medical assistance are given a red arm band.
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There is a big hospital at the LSU Dome and the LSU medical staff appeared to have things there well in hand when we arrived Friday, ... Not sure where we would be directed to go next we waited. Word soon came that we were to go to New Orleans and we instantly knew we were going into the heart of the storm.Scott Warner
I left home knowing I could be gone two weeks, perhaps longer and that's still the case, ... I do want to thank everyone back in Cullman who continue to pray for him and his family while he's away. He sends a special thank you to the physicians and staff at Cullman Internal Medicine who have taken up the slack in his absence.
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I do think security in this area is better than it was a couple of days ago, ... Still I'd have to say that security is a concern. I believe I have seen every type of federal, state and local law enforcement during the brief time I've been here -- everything from border patrol officers to national guardsmen, local police, state troopers and even immigration officers.
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