Saturday, June 30, 2012

We Need to be Pragmatic Regarding Haiti

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Philosophical purity is easy — the blogosphere is lousy with it — while pragmatic solutions to difficult problems are as rare these days as ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Beth Doing Well After Heart Surgery

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Beth Beth called a few nights ago. She is back in Port-au-Prince and feeling well. Beth had her aortic and mitral valves repaired in...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Doing the Right Thing

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“You don’t want to be the outsider who betrays the institution; whistleblowers are always the weirdos,” Lessig said. “There are so many wa...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Really Quite Disastrous

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‘Really quite disastrous’ By Editorial Board,  Saturday, May 26,  5:23 PM AS THE WORLD’S worst outbreak of cholera con...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Greatness of Man

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Great men in Cite Soleil--May, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) "...the greatness of a man is measured not in his lack of faults, bu...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Beth Accepted for Heart Surgery!

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Beth Several months ago I examined Beth for the first time. Beth is 16 years old and lives in Port-au-Prince. She gave an ominous hi...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sarah--Update May 20, 2012

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Sarah (Photo by John Carroll) Some good news from Soleil-- I heard from my Canadian friend that it appears Sarah and her mother were e...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Be Brave

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See this article .
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Haiti is not Immortal

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The situation is serious. The Nation is not immortal, it is dying. The country is short of breath, [...] he world attended, without illusion...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Haiti's Cholera Crisis by the New York Times

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May 12, 2012 Haiti’s Cholera Crisis The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reaso...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Sarah from Soleil--Update May 11, 2012

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Sarah--Monday morning--May 7, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) On Monday morning of this week I took a deep breath as I walked into malnut...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

The Look of Cholera

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Thirty-year old man from Waf Jeremy with cholera--May 4, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll)
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Please Do Something!

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Sarah Yesterday morning in the pediatric clinic a mother came into my office and sat down with her baby wrapped in a blanket. She had ...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Update: Cholera Treatment Center in Drouillard

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United Nations = Cholera + Rape (Photo by John Carroll--May 1, 2012) The people in the photo are pumping water from the underground wa...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Doctors Without Borders Doing Heavy Lifting with Cholera in Port-au-Prince

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Doctors Without Borders-Drouillard Hospital in LaPlaine This Cholera Treatment Center is located two miles north of Cite Soleil April 29...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Lady in the Wheelbarrow

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Lucy in Front of St. Catherine's Hospital, Cite Soleil  (Photo by John Carroll) As I left St. Catherine’s Hospital several da...

Joseph Accepted for Heart Surgery!

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Joseph--April 26, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) On April 26, 2012 we received more good news. Haitian Hearts patient Joseph was accep...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

A Sign in Haiti

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Claudia in St. Catherine's Emergency Room, Cite Soleil--April 26, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) We lost our beautiful mother two ye...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Chaos in Haiti

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Outside Pediatric Clinic, Cite Soleil--April 24 (Photo by John Carroll) I have never seen Haiti so bad. Read this. As President Co...
Friday, April 13, 2012

No Sewer System for Three Million People--What's New?

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Read this article from the Huffington Post.