If you want to read some powerful–and heartbreaking–medical reports from New Orleans, these two dispatches over at Blogborygmi are a must:

• Dispatch from New Orleans – 1
• Dispatch from New Orleans – 2

And GruntDoc has a long and detailed description from the CEO at Tulane University Hospital on their ordeal during and after Katrina:

• GruntDoc: Tulane Hospital CEO’s account of Katrina