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American Universities Rush to the Front Lines in Haiti

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 22, 2010

"What we've been seeing are just many, many, many patients, a lot of orthopedic injuries, a lot of open fractures that are infected," Brian W. Loggie, a professor of surgery at the Creighton University School of Medicine, said in a telephone interview. While many American colleges are providing financial assistance to Haiti, some, like Creighton, have sent teams of nurses and surgeons. These universities have longtime connections to aid work in Haiti and were able to quickly dispatch doctors in the days following the quake.

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