Doctors need to use this idea to get into NO?

[SuniSurf]

READ THE ARTICLES FIRST!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050904/D8CDKNCG0.html


Excerpt:

Doctors Hamstrung in Relief Efforts
Sep 4, 3:31 PM (ET)

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Volunteer physicians are pouring in to care for the sick, but red tape is keeping hundreds of others from caring for Hurricane Katrina survivors while health problems escalate.
Among the doctors stymied from helping out are 100 surgeons and paramedics in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital marooned in rural Mississippi.
"The bell was rung, the e-mails were sent off. ...We all got off work and deployed," said one of the frustrated surgeons, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


http://www.doorcountycompass.com/


Excerpts:

Next she decided to call the Governor's office in Louisiana instead of FEMA. They responded immediately with, "Please, God Bless You, YES!" and provided her with a route and a letter to Wisconsin Emergency Management requesting their assistance in staffing the buses with law enforcement officers.

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The letter that we asked the Louisiana Governor's office to write for Wisconsin was used as a draft and they immediately sent it to all of the other states. Many of them responded, and hundreds of empty buses started to arrive at the same time in New Orleans."

WHY CAN'T THE DOCTORS, RESCUERS, ETC. USE THIS SAME METHOD TO GET BY FEMA?

[NYC]

1. How utterly shameful is it that doctors

have to do an end run around FEMA to help the victims in New Orleans.

That is the FEDERAL Emergency Management Agency. The federal government is preventing help from getting to New Orleans.

[elehhhhna]

2. .