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Don’t Leave ’em Behind: How My Brother Made Medicine Better

Posted on May 15, 2012 by David Dobbs · 2 Comments

How do you track the medical care of thousands of people in disasters? My brother, Allen, as chief medical officer of the National Disaster Medical System, spent the last few years trying to answer that, among other challenges. The NDMS works primarily by mustering and deploying medical-response teams made up of medical volunteers pulled from […]

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, the true strange story of my mother's secret wartime affair, which became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single, and which readers of the longform publisher The Atavist selected as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For my reading recommendations in my daily newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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