September 26, 2008
Damaged Medical School in Galveston Struggles to Recover From Storm
As daylight broke last week over the University of Texas Medical Branch here, a helicopter circled overhead and morning-shift workers began to stream in down below. This was no ordinary day, however. The helicopter was bringing workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, rather than patients, and the crews arriving for work were wearing hazardous-materials suits instead of hospital scrubs.
Three days after Hurricane Ike devastated this island community, along with much of the
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