The News & Observer, a paper based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has an article on Dr. Gregory Henderson, whose email dispatch from New Orleans was mentioned in my post last week. (Snopes.com has also concluded that the original email message was authentic.)

Henderson sent out an update on Saturday to his original email:

I am replying to all of your letters of prayers and support in this way in the interests of time.

1. thanks for all your letters of support and prayers and offers to help.

2. i am safe, and now based at the Sheraton hotel where we have a new makeshift clinic established.

3. the situation at the convention center is urgent and disastrous = 10-20 thousand people in dire need of health care from minor to severe. A small MASH unit was established there last night. I will be joining them today – I desparately need the help of as many medically trained individuals as possible to triage these patients, treat if necessary, and evacuate – only the most serious will be seen at the MASH

4. i need to figure out how to set up a morgue. there are several dead at the convention center

5. some supplies are ariving today courtesy of Fred Eschelman and PPD Inc of north carolina – I will get these supplies to the convention center as soon as they arrive.

6. i need mobile dialysis units – thousands haven’t been dialysed in over a week.

7. i can be reached pretty well on my cell phone at [number deleted]. now is the time to act – i need help – i haven’t found any other physicians in the field yet and i can only do so much

9. Ochsner is the only fully functional facility in the city – they are effectively taking care of all of their patients and offering extrordinary help, an lots of supplies – i am proud to be part of this organization.

Greg Henderson

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