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Archive > February, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 2

Helping Hand for Haiti

The American surgical community is does its part to put earthquake victims back together.

Daniel Cook, Managing Editor; and Kent Steinriede, Associate Editor

Peter Hedberg first heard about the magnitude 7 earthquake that rocked Haiti in the afternoon of Jan. 12 from the comfort of his home in Durant, Okla. Days later, after paying his way to the Dominican Republic and hitching a ride on an army Blackhawk helicopter into Port-au-Prince, the general surgeon was operating in tents and swatting flies away from legs and arms that had been splintered under caved concrete. He went to Haiti because he was inspired to help during the disaster relief's critical hours. He went because he remembered why he became a surgeon. He went, like so many other healthcare professionals, because the true spirit of giving moved him.

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