Wow. Dr. Gregory Henderson on CNN's Anderson Cooper

Stand up guy. I hope everyone has a chance to see what he had to say.

has really seemed changed from this tragedy

not that he was a bad guy but this has really made an emotional impact (as it should be everyone but thats another story)

he is acting so warm and human
powerful to see

He must have pets himself.

that he apparently dotes on.

And this interview was amazing! Someone needs to get it on a video.

where he is reporting from
and i heard he has at least one dog

so his love for animals alone is worth a lot of admiration

to move at a moments notice

What did they say?

Or is this another DU mystery thread to nowhere...

Give me a couple.

Dr. Gregory Henderson and got this. ?



http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ernie_the_attorney/2005/08/frontline_accou.html

Cooper:

This man is a hero. You have been here when no one else was. He was the only medical person in the convention center running around trying to treat people with just a stethoscope. You were treating people when no one else was.

Dr.

Trying, doing the best I could.

Cooper:

How frustrated, or angry are you by what you have seen, by the response.

Dr.

The last few days we're coming together. We're starting to get a response. Obviously the first few days there was no response. So as a physician I was incredibly frustrated. My job, the way I think, the way I'm hard wired is to see a problem, make a diagnosis and you fix it, or do everything you can to fix it. And we had a situation where we had innumerable medical problems in front of you and no means to do anything about it.

Cooper:

People died because of the lack of response?

Dr.

People died, yes. Because there was no medical care here to give them.

Cooper:

Children, babies died because there were no IV's?

Dr.

People became dehydrated and died, more old people than babies, but yes babies died. One woman gave birth and the baby died that night.

Cooper:

You've also been treating the Police and Fire department. When you hear politicians in Washington saying responses start from the bottom up and if they couldn't do it they should then ask for the federal government.

Dr.

I haven't heard that, but I can tell you something right now. All I have seen for the past nine days is ground up in action. You called me a hero? I'm not a hero. New Orleans Police Department, individual men who didn't leave their post and stayed 24 hours a day and did exactly what I did, they are the heroes. They didn't have the structure to tell them what to do and they figured it out on the fly, we all figured it out on the fly.

Cooper:

So what do you want to tell people in Washington who are pointing fingers?

Dr.

People can make entire careers out of blaming people. Let's solve the problem. This episode, like 9-11, exposed a massive problem. Very simply, we do not have any immediate civilian medical response teams that can be dropped into a situation that can give the people what they need, I mean quickly, not 4 or 5 days later, I mean now. We can't have me running around with a stethoscope holding hands and patting shoulders, that's not going to do any good.

So people better read it!!

:D

With hopes more people in trenches last week will be talking more.

The response two responses above yours (which would be number nine)

That's what we are talking about
Carol

I did read it and appreciate your work!

Wouldn't it be nice if the posters included a little bit of what the person said?

you should include in the original post SOME information that makes the reader know why they should follow said instructions