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Baylor College of Medicine: Making a Difference in the Community
By the time people arrived from New Orleans, the Clinic was ready. I have never been more proud of an organization than I was during that time. As BCM faculty physicians, residents, nurses and students treated evacuees, I witnessed a level of compassion that I have never before seen and gratitude from those we cared for that was truly humbling. Each of our teaching hospitals, where care was provided to those with more serious medical conditions, opened their doors without question to help the sick and injured and provide support for the Astrodome Clinic. As a community of academic healthcare providers, we learned much about our Louisiana neighbors and about ourselves. As September progressed, medical schools around the country watched the Tulane School of Medicine cling to life as the waters rose in New Orleans and filled the basement and first floor of their school. BCM, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine did more than just watch. We formed the Alliance of South Texas Academic Health Centers to provide support and clinical training sites for Tulane students, residents and faculty. By October 1, BCM had welcomed more than 500 medical students to our campus to continue their training. An additional 278 resident physicians also arrived to resume their training through the Baylor Affiliated Residency Hospital program. We have embarked on a journey with the Tulane School of Medicine that has no predetermined navigation since no medical school in history has faced the challenge that they now have before them. Baylor College of Medicine will do all that it can to support Tulane during their recovery and assure that they return to New Orleans even stronger than before. American author Leo Rosten wrote, "I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." The BCM Family will be able to look back on this time and know that we made a difference by helping the sick and injured from New Orleans and welcoming the Tulane School of Medicine trainees. Peter G. Traber, M.D. |
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At the end of August the nation watched in disbelief as human tragedy unfolded in Louisiana. In a matter of days, Houston was at the forefront of the recovery effort for the evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. The Harris County Hospital District, a primary affiliated teaching facility of Baylor College of Medicine, was charged with creating a