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Didier Fassin is a physician, initially practicing internal medicine and studying infectious diseases as a specialist. Recently, he works as a professor of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. Over the years, he has worked on several boards in the politics of science, such as serving on the Bored of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, a public research institution solely focused on human health and medical research. He also works extensively in non-profits to benefit uninsured and undocumented patients, as well as working as administrator of Doctors Without Borders.

To educate the pbulic so that we may respond to the next storm disaster better, and to spread the story of the survivors to better understand their difficulties and the emotional impact of the storm.

They used other studies done, interviews they conducted, and greater research on the storms to form their arguement for seperate mental health disorder due to the traumatic events of disasters.

This is a calfornia department of health document, therefore it appears to apply specifically to that states definition of an IMD.

This is a Liability policy related to First Responders' that aims to enable first responders to aid peoples during the effects of a biological or chemical hazard without delay by allowing for first responders to ignore potential contamination spread in order to prevent loss of life. Once the situation is stabalized the previous protocols become active again in order to protect the environment and community.

In this article emergency response was looked at in a very broad way, with planning for having teams, organization, and training. Logistics weren't fleshed out, but the call for a team was there. It was also potentially difficult due to internationalization of the team.

Readers, however, often used the books for a different purpose:
identifying depression. Regularly, I received — and still receive — phone calls: “My
husband is just like — ” one or another figure from a clinical example.

HERE is where I want to venture a radical statement about the worth of
anecdote. Beyond its roles as illustration, affirmation, hypothesis­builder and lowlevel
guidance for practice, storytelling can act as a modest counterbalance to a
straitened understanding of evidence.