Bay Area Nurses And Doctors Recount Haiti Relief Experiences

KTVU, February 2, 2010 San Francisco - A team of 15 nurses, surgeons and other specialists from several Bay Area hospitals have returned from more than a week in Haiti, treating earthquake victims amidst power outages and primitive conditions in a hospital outside Port-au-Prince. Members of the surgical team, who regularly work at Sutter Health facilities in the area, gathered at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco Tuesday to share details of their experience. Anesthesiologist John Donovan called the situation "an orthopedic disaster." Many survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake suffered crushed limbs that required serious treatment or amputation. ... Bay