Makeshift medicine

One year after Katrina, ER doctors cobble together care in a former department store as New Orleans copes with shortages of beds and staff

By Keith O'Brien

Globe Correspondent / August 28, 2006

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NEW ORLEANS -- On a recent weekday morning, an emergency room in the heart of downtown New Orleans was filled with all the typical cases: a man moaning with a hernia, a woman beaten by her boyfriend, a 3-week-old baby who had fallen out of her car seat, a man suffering from chest pains. (Full article: 1189 words)