New Orleans: "Don’t bring your parents back if they are sick"

Closed hospitals and medical offices are shattering the health care system post-Katrina:

Studies suggest that hundreds of doctors never returned. And some of those who did, especially specialists and young physicians, are leaving, said Dr. Ricardo Febry, president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, which has lost more than 200 of its 650 members. The exodus has “been a steady trickle,” Dr. Febry said.

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