Natural disasters in the time of Telemedicine
My S.O is a physician working in Houston, and he missed Hurricane Harvey over the weekend, being out of town for a conference. The hospital sent out an S.O.S. asking faculty to do their best to come in. As the Houston airports continued to be closed Monday and Tuesday, he and his colleague, also a physician and a native of Houston, flew to another airport and drove a few hours back to the flood. I am proud of them, and salute the doctors/nurses/technicians/staff that rode out