Finding them first: Med student spearheads rescue and relief in Brooklyn after Sandy
Excerpt:“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.
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Kraushar
Overall Sentiment: 0.0258836
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| -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.” |
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Dr. Rebecca Rosenberg
Overall Sentiment: 0.136
Relevance: 0.451765
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| -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.” |
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Sandy
Overall Sentiment: 0.102719
Relevance: 0.268854
Christine Quinn
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.262787
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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
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NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Katrina
Overall Sentiment: -0.124435
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Organization: Red Hook Initiative
Overall Sentiment: 0.0946289
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Organization: Red Hook
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Source : Finding them first: Med student spearheads rescue and relief in Brooklyn after Sandy
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When Matthew Kraushar, a 26-year-old medical student, was approached about creating a major medical relief effort in Red Hook after Hurricane Sandy, he didn't think he was qualified. But soon, thanks so his efforts, he helped establish a makeshift clinic and rescue effort for trapped or cutoff residents in need of medical care
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