Katrina Gay will never forget the hospitals she visited in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish in 2005. Patients' bodies, bleeding and bandaged, were lined up along the halls, lying in gurneys used as makeshift beds four rows deep. Only a narrow space was left among them, where doctors and volunteers could hurriedly pass through.
The staff — those health care workers who stayed and helped in the disastrous wake of Hurricane Katrina — were exhausted and visibly stressed out. It looked, Gay says, like a war zone, and she had no idea how they could sustain it.
"They were saints — saints and soldiers just trying to do their thing," she tells Mashable. Read more...
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