Nearly 6,000 physicians are displaced by hurricane Katrina
“Nearly 6,000 doctors along the Gulf Coast were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina in the largest displacement of physicians in U.S. history, university researchers reported Monday.
How many of those doctors will set up shop permanently in other cities, or decide to retire instead of reopening their practices, remains as unclear as New Orleans’ future.
‘We don’t know what this is going to mean to health care,’ said Dr. Thomas Ricketts, who led the study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. ‘We’ve never had to deal with something like this before.'”
