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The article uses personal anecdotes from individuals that were there during Katrina and data obtained from the NIH and FEMA.

The article’s argument is supported through statistical analysis of health care services available to citizens and personal anecdotes of physicians and other health care workers that were affected by radiation while providing care. Like much of history, looking at the effects of Chernobyl on government and education formation, can provide many ideas on how to improve the system, and create more options if it has to happen again. 

This article has only been cited in one other paper entitled "Documenting Attacks on Health Workers and Facilities in Armed Conflicts".

This article does not directly address emergency response, but the potential for sexual violence should be noted by responders.

See the previous annotation regarding funding.

This article goes far beyond the enviroment of an EMT. The article discusses the involvemnt of a systematic government that works with the people to discover the most effective way of responding to the events as a whole. She explains the increase in randomness atributted with nuclear disasters compared to other natural disasters. 

Anna Pou is the primary physician involved in the euthanization cases. Louisiana llegistlation is investigating the deaths of patients at Memorial Hospital.

This is a problem that needs to be emergently disscussed, but it doesn't reference emergency response.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo ordered over 2000 National Guard troops were deployed to Long Island, New York City , and the hudson valley. Defense secretary Leon panetta had issued a prepare-to-deploy order in case the hurricane relief effort needed more support. Each service had to have 6,500 active duty troops ready in case they were called upon.