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Disaster Mitigation and Management: What Ophthalmic Practices Should Know

From Ocular Surgery News:

Within 3 days of Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on New Orleans in August 2005, Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, FACS, made the painful but inevitable decision to close her refractive practice permanently. McDonald’s office was on the seventh floor of a building, although water rose only to the third floor. “Still, the temperature and humidity went sky high,” she said. “The environment adversely affected my excimer laser and even my medical records, which we had yet to convert to electronic format.” The records were covered with mold…  (read more at OSN)

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