Doctors and nurses from across the state have treated close to 1,000 patients in their first five days here. The Maryland team is staffing six makeshift clinics across Jefferson Parish, mostly in firehouses and elementary schools. They give tetanus shots to people with cuts and prescription drugs to people who've gone without for almost two weeks.
"We did essentially bread-and-butter family medicine," said Dr. Richard Colgan, an Annapolis resident who works...
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