Monday, December 24, 2012

Finding them first: Med student spearheads rescue and relief in Brooklyn after Sandy | Redux

Finding them first: Med student spearheads rescue and relief in Brooklyn after Sandy

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“I was approached by Carlos [Menchaca]” – a staffer for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn – “he heard that I had some medical training, and I said, ‘Listen, I’m just a medical student,’” Krausher, a 26-year-old MD and PhD candidate in the Robert Wood Johnson-Princeton-Rutgers Tri-Institutional Program in New Brunswick, N.J., told FoxNews.com.  “He said, ‘Look, we have nothing.  There’s no state or federal help coming in here, and we’re worried there are people stuck in their homes. ’” Kraushar was immediately reminded of Hurricane Katrina, and he became concerned about residents in Red Hook living with chronic, sometimes complicated medical conditions – who are stable under normal conditions.  With widespread power outages and many homes without heat and hot water in the wake of the storm, people suffering from easily maintained conditions could suddenly become acute medical situations, once cut off from their doctors and medications.

People:

Kraushar

Overall Sentiment: 0.0258836

Relevance: 0.806385

SentimentQuote
-0.0306726“Our biggest problem initially was an information problem – knowing who these people were, where they were, what medical conditions they had, whether or not they had a phone, if they could get out of their homes – we had no idea,” Kraushar said ...
-0.12578“We were essentially trying to put out fires before they started,” he added. ...
0.14546“All of the resources we used were essentially donated through contacts at the Occupy people, for the most part,” Kraushar said. ...
-0.185618“All of the resources we used were essentially donated through contacts at the Occupy people, for the most part,” Kraushar said.  “At a certain point, my main focus was trying to just keep the ship afloat, and I would say to someone…‘Listen, I need glucometers,’ – which is a blood sugar checker for the diabetics….And then they would just contact up the chain their various resources at different hospitals or different places, and it sort of just flowed in.”
0“Medical Matt” by the Red Hook community, Kraushar said ...
0“What people don’t realize is that the most crucial time is responding to the acute event – being there fast and early,” Kraushar said. ...
0.014343“What people don’t realize is that the most crucial time is responding to the acute event – being there fast and early,” Kraushar said.  “That was something that our system – as makeshift and shooting-off-the-hip as it was – was able to do in cooperation with the Occupy people and the Red Hook Initiative, that the government wasn’t set up to do.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 7
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1822676
  • Mean: -0.026038228571429
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Dr. Rebecca Rosenberg

Overall Sentiment: 0.136

Relevance: 0.451765

SentimentQuote
-0.142721“My friend is the founder and executive director of the Red Hook Initiative, and she called me and said, ‘Can you talk to this medical student? He’s running this medical relief effort and he seems overwhelmed,’” Rosenberg told ...
-0.0985349“My friend is the founder and executive director of the Red Hook Initiative, and she called me and said, ‘Can you talk to this medical student? He’s running this medical relief effort and he seems overwhelmed,’” Rosenberg told FoxNews.com.  “I called him, and he was just exhausted…and he was trying so hard to get someone to take this over.  He was doing great things, but he knew he needed a more systematic approach.  It’s not really the job of a student volunteer, but he was doing an unbelievable job.”
0.0498657“He did everything he could and took it all very personally – the safety of every resident in Red Hook,” Rosenberg said. ...
0.11077“He did everything he could and took it all very personally – the safety of every resident in Red Hook,” Rosenberg said.  “It’s what drove him to do everything it seems.  It’s really inspiring for anyone in medicine, when you see a young doctor or young person doing something like that.  It makes you remember what your goal is as a physician – to do what’s right for public health and individual health.  I don’t think anyone told him that, he just knew it.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0806202
  • Mean: -0.02015505
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0.102719

Relevance: 0.268854

Christine Quinn

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.262787

Carlos [Menchaca

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.246194

Krausher

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.237569

Matt

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.203433

Dr. Salil Bahandari

Overall Sentiment: 0.101558

Relevance: 0.202424

Dr. Elizabeth Moye

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.1886

Irene

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.187072

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Katrina

Overall Sentiment: -0.124435

Relevance: 0.305856

Organization: Red Hook Initiative

Overall Sentiment: 0.0946289

Relevance: 0.666606

Organization: Red Hook

Overall Sentiment: -0.427972

Relevance: 0.425174

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