Title: New Orleans Medical Students post-Katrina — an Assessment of Psychopathology and Anticipatory Transference of Resilience
Abstract: <p>Wars, conquest, famines, plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, cyclones, and hurricanes have the potential to cause mass migrations. Hurricane Katrina caused one of the most significant non-war-related migrations in modern history. Not since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, where residents of the Central Plains states of the United States and Canada were forced to permanently migrate, have more than 1 million people been forced to temporarily or permanently relocate. Even more unique is the fact that the evacuation from eastern and western Louisiana, because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, respectively, occurred so quickly, compared with the slower sustained relocation in the 1930s.</p> <H4>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</H4> <p>Harold M. Ginzburg, MD, JD, MPH, is with the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center; Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; and Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine. David J. Bateman is a 3rd-year medical student at Tulane University Medical School.</p> <p>Address correspondence to Harold M. Ginzburg, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Suite 200, 3340 Severn Avenue, Metairie, LA 70002; fax 504-613-4913; e-mail <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p> <p>Dr. Ginzburg and Mr. Bateman have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.</p> <p>An acknowledgment to Jan Johnson, MD, for obtaining permission for me to conduct the study, and to Jeff Rouse, MD, for assisting in the development of the mental health questionnaire.</p>
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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