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September 22, 2005
A&M Closed Tomorrow
I'm in the meeting with Dr Colenda, Dean of Texas A&M right now. Mother Nature continues to prevent my medical education. A&M is closing it's doors tomorrow and the head and neck exam on Monday is postponed till Wednesday afternoon. Friday's anatomy lecture and lab is going to be Monday. Clinical correlations is cancelled. The genetics test for their students may be moved as well.
The good news is that we've got some volunteer opportunities as many very sick people are in the area. We'll be on lockdown in the facility we're in, though. They're converting the vet school's large animal facility to receive people and bringing in an Army mobile hospital from Georgia. They need people to do check-in, triage, manually bagging patients, helping with other things.
Let me know if you're looking for something to do this weekend. A lot, I mean, a lot of patients are coming to College Station.
Cell lines are clobbered, but try a text message (410-212-1281, niels.olson@gmail.com) or just go to St Joseph's on 29th St, or the Vet School on University Ave.
I'm in the volunteer coordination meeting with the deans of the A&M school right now.
Large needs, from Dr McCord, dean of student affairs, right now:
1) Vet School, lots of special needs, vents, burn victims from Shriner's. Most appropriate for M2, nurses, PAs. Desperately need students and other help. Training session at 2 pm if you can make it. Dr. Dicky and Dr Carlton are POCs. Get scrubs, white coat, badge, stethoscope, opthalmoscope, otoscope. Go to first floor lecture hall in the med school (I can meet you at the front door)
2) Five other special needs clinics. Much lower medical needs level: Put together first aid kits and deliver them. Serve as messengars with what the directors of those clinics need. Dr Dorsey. 1301 Memorial in Bryan, suite 100. That's at 3pm. Google Map it. Anyone's welcome. Scrubs, white coats, the full look. Gotta have ID.
3) Licensed paramedics, EMTs, etc. Very special need. 100 special needs patients showed up last night with the care of exactly 1 M4. She was "wide-eyed and very scared." People ranging from actively dying to schizophrenic. Dr. Dorsey wants you to call her personally. Contact me and I'll try to get you in touch with her.
You will be in lock-down at the facility you go to once you're there.
Listen to am 1150 and 1620.
Stay away from the Brazos River.
Other POCs: A&M 1st year: Jessica Patterson: cell (979)204-8068
M2: H) 979-690-9682, C) 979-422-9017.
Student help, Casey Huckaby, cell: 254-220-1603.
Football parking is not being enforced so don't worry about parking.
Posted by Niels Olson at September 22, 2005 1:01 PM
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