When I saw that an event called "Medicine Around the World: Healing from a Global Perspective" was taking place on campus, I thought it would be …
Tag: Haiti
A tale of two earthquakes: Stanford doctor discusses responses to the Nepal and Haiti disasters
Nepal’s 7.8 earthquake in late April killed 8,000 people and displaced thousands more. Paul Auerbach, MD, a professor of emergency medicine at Stanford, spent about …
A sanitation solution: Stanford students introduce dry toilets in Haiti
In the United States, we often take for granted the relationship between health and sanitation. Not so in Haiti, where some people dispose of their …
Health care in Haiti: “At risk of regressing”
As an undergraduate at Duke University, Maxwell Kligerman stumbled into an amazing scientific opportunity. He spent the summer of 2009 collecting data on the availability …
New Stanford Hospital team ready to mobilize for disaster relief
When Stanford Hospital staff members volunteered to participate in a relief mission to post-earthquake Haiti last year, they were stunned over the number of deaths that could have …
Haiti, a year after the quake
At Hospital Albert Schweitzer (where I traveled last February to write about the hospital's struggle to care for the wounded in the quake's aftermath), the …
MIT students test low-cost wound-healing device in Haiti
From plug-and-play hospital tents to the water-disinfecting SteriPEN, physicians and aid workers have used a number of simple yet innovative technologies in treating earthquake survivors …
On crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti
Lukas Biewald discusses the crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti: The advantages of a flexible crowdsourcing workflow to managing disaster relief are huge. Businesses like crowdsourced …
Haiti day 4: Life after the quake
On a workbench in the backroom at the new rehabilitation facility is a brown plastic foot, about a woman's size 6, with a carefully carved …
Haiti: In pictures
This is David Charles, one of just a dozen Haitian physical therapists in the entire country. David works at Hospital Albert Schweitzer. He trained in …
Haiti earthquake relief by Packard Children's team
This new video from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital shows footage shot by a team of doctors and nurses who went to Haiti Feb. 2 - …
Haiti day 3: Amputees
Bel Jean still hopes to be a priest. But there is a problem. "You need two arms to elevate the mass," explains the 29-year-old, raising …
Haiti day 2: At the hospital
I can bear the adult patients with amputated limbs, red and raw stumps oozing, waiting stoically on cots spilling out into the hallways. The toes …
Haiti day 1: Arrival
I took American Airlines flight #18 from JFK airport to Port-au-Prince on Feb. 24, only the second such commercial flight to land in post-earthquake Haiti …
Stanford doctor discusses experience in Haiti
As previously reported, a team of Stanford physicians and nurses, including Paul Auerbach, MD, recently spent two weeks providing medical care to survivors of the …
Treating the injured amid the apocalypse of Haiti
Over the last two days, I have spoken to seven caregivers at Stanford who treated earthquake victims in Haiti, all describing what they experienced as …