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Post-Ike: 'It's a public health emergency'

By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
HOUSTON — A 30-year-old man falls 25 feet from a cherry picker, smacking his head and breaking his leg so badly that bone pokes through his thigh. A trauma team at Texas Medical Center's Memorial Hermann Hospital crowds around him.
Nearby, a trauma team prepares for a patient arriving by helicopter who was hit in the head by a falling tree.

It is noon Thursday, five days after Hurricane Ike. Every bed in the emergency department is full. Nearly every 20 minutes, a helicopter carrying another critically ill person lands on the roof.

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