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Monday, March 1st, 2010 We've entered a new arena of horror where our Richter scale, for the first time, doesn't seem to reach high enough, and adjectives are crumbling under the impact. "Devastation" or "catastrophe"? None of the usual descriptors feel powerful enough.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario - as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Even the predawn day began a little differently. The shrill distant stadium cheers of hundreds of Haitian roosters sounded oddly synchronized, as though perhaps they were doing the wave.
Friday, February 19th, 2010 After six hours of unaccustomed sleep, I awoke like a mad pirate, with one red eye, hair askew, lurching and croaking.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 There's something about the constant drone of a generator – the relentless, unremitting growl that hangs in the air. It's like the smell and the dust and the fear of the rainy season, the way it creeps under your skin so quickly, and then sinks so deepely that you’re not even aware that you're aware of it. All the time.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Immediately after crossing from the DR into Haiti, you can see the visible downshift into a worse level of poverty.
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 Jan Gurley Dr. Jan Gurley, a board-certified internist physician, is the only Harvard Medical School graduate, ever, to have been awarded a Shoney's Ten-Step Pin for documented excellence in waitressing. She brings a wry humor and hard-nosed practicality to health topics of all kinds (treatment, research, trends, and politics) at her website: Doc Gurley, Posts from an Insane Healthcare System [ www.docgurley.com] Haiti Earthquake Jan Gurley Dr. Jan Gurley, who blogs actively at www.docgurley.com, has agreed to allow HCPLive to re-post her ongoing coverage of her journey-on which she'll be joined by Enoch Choi, MD-to Haiti to provide care to survivors of the recent earthquake. Says Dr. Gurley, "I signed onto the Haiti trip because of the unspeakable degree of human suffering there - a level that's been unheard of in our lifetimes." She adds "I feel that I am lucky in being able to go and do some small part to lend a hand" - something that we all wish we could do.
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