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Charity Hospital during Hurricane Katrina

Episode sources:

  1. “Charity” by Jim Carrier

  2. “Trapped hospital workers kept most patients alive” by Tony Freemantle (Houston Chronicle) 2005

  3. “America’s Oldest Hospital: Abandoned” (Real Stories) 2022

  4. “Hurricane Katrina: Heroes of Charity Hospital” (History) 2016

  5. “2005: Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on Charity Hospital” (CNN) 2005

  6. “Dispute Over Historic Hospital for the Poor Pits Doctors Against State” by Adam Nossiter (New York Times)

  7. “The Oldest Hospitals in the United States” (World Atlas)

  8. “Courage Amid Katrina’s Chaos” (ABC News) 2005

  9. “New Orleans Community Profile” (City of New Orleans) 2020

  10. “New Orleans Hospital Is Replaced, With Hope of Preserving Its Mission” by Abby Goodnough (New York Times) 2015

  11. “How New Orleans Flooded” (NOVA)

  12. “#throwbackthursday 44 photos of Charity Hospital's illustrious past & uncertain future” by John Pope (The Times-Picayune) 2014

  13. “Charity Hospital” (Wikipedia)

  14. “What is an AMBU bag?” (AED Brands) 2023

  15. “New Orleans: A City Without Charity” by Desiree Evans (Facing South) 2009

  16. “A Look Back At Hurricane Katrina” (Office of Policy Development and Research)

  17. “A Surgeon Caught Up in the Flooding Tells of a Week of Chaos, Peril and Heroism” by Donald G. McNeil, Jr (New York Times) 2005

  18. “Misleading reports of lawlessness after Katrina worsened crisis, officials say” by Mark Guarino (The Guardian) 2015

  19. “All Faculty Excerpts: The Katrina Experience” (Gotham Writers)

  20. “The Levees Worked in New Orleans – This Time” by Jake Bittle (Curbed) 2021

  21. “Death toll for Hurricane Katrina reduced by 25%” (Fox 8) 2023

  22. “Hurricane Katrina: 10 Facts About the Deadly Storm and Its Legacy” by Sarah Pruitt (History) 2020

  23. “We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because of Katrina” by Carl Bialik (FiveThirtyEight) 2015

  24. “Extremely Powerful Hurricane Katrina Leaves a Historic Mark on the Northern Gulf Coast: A Killer Hurricane Our Country Will Never Forget” (National Weather Service)

  25. “Hurricane Katrina” (Britannica)

  26. “Timeline: Who Knew When the Levees Broke” (NPR) 2006

  27. “What is Ham Radio” (The National Association for Amateur Radio)

  28. The Louisiana Health Care Landscape (KFF) 2016

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