9/11/01: Health care workers' skills put to test
Photo credit: AP | An emergency worker is assisted in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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9/11/2001
With only 46 hospital burn-unit beds in the city, New York's ability to cope with the medical catastrophe created by the World Trade Center attack will depend upon heroic levels of work by nurses and physicians, not only in the 170 hospitals within the city, but at medical facilities regionally.
The numbers of patients - perhaps more than 1,000 yesterday, with at least 150 considered critical,...
