(Haiti) Since we can't do a lot as pathologists....

[smellycat]

I figured I would post a link to the american red cross's site for Haiti relief.
Minimum 10 bucks. I found the site to be a little slow but if you're patient it will go through.

Haiti Relief (American Red Cross)

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[smellycat]

Something I got from CAP (I'm sure many of you have too).

All of us are reading and watching the devastating news and seeing the wrenching pictures from Haiti in the aftermath of the terrible earthquake earlier this week. As a physician, I read the news and looked at the images with grief, with shock, and with a strong desire to reach out to the struggling people, injured and terrified. But, as a pathologist, I also realize that there is little I would be qualified to do in Haiti today, besides comfort those who are alive and have suffered loss and provide rudimentary first aid.

The CAP Foundation does have a way that you can help Haiti in this hour of need.

Our Humanitarian Grant program has sponsored several pathologists who have done wonderful laboratory outreach work in Haiti in the past. We are working with these pathologist-humanitarians to identify the areas where the CAP Foundation can help Haiti with short-term immediate support and the longer term struggles ahead. I urge you to join me in donating to the CAP Foundation, where pathologists will be part of providing laboratory services, humanitarian efforts, and medical aid during Haiti's moment of crisis and beyond.

I know that each and every one of you would go to Haiti, comfort the survivors, give medical care, and help laboratories cope with the medical situation. And, if you are a pathologist who is planning to join an established relief mission to Haiti, please contact the CAP Foundation and tell us your story. But, we are also acutely aware that there will be incredible needs, short and long term, that will require funding, supplies, and equipment, for health care and laboratory services. By donating to the CAP Foundation Haiti Relief Effort, pathologists can contribute what is needed most, when it is needed most, to provide these desperately needed services.

To help the CAP foundation provide support to the impoverished nation of Haiti, use this link:

http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=foundation_page

and donate today.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Hunt, MD, MEd, FCAP
Interim President
CAP Foundation

 

[pathstudent]

Oh BS we can do tons of things.

First off they probably need post-mortem help, and we all have been to medical school and know how to clean a wound and wrap it, perscribe an antibiotic etc....

 

[spz315]

What sorts of international opportunities are available for pathologists?

I'm a 3rd year med student and will in all likelihood do a path residency. I've also always been interested in spending a few years with an organization like Doctors Without Borders or another humanitarian or disaster relief organization.

Does anyone know of pathologists who have done such a thing? What role did they play?

Thanks for the info.