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E. T. McDonough, MD; Frank Braza, MD
Danbury Hospital Danbury, Conn

JAMA. 1985;253(19):2830-2831.

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To the Editor.—

Ms Glasbrenner¹ reported on the need for disaster planning to utilize resources more efficiently and save as many lives as possible. She stressed that a disaster, natural or man-made, is a time for community action. Physicians as individuals and as a group must interact with all other community services (police, fire, ambulance, and government) on a scale that would never be equaled on a day-to-day basis in an emergency room. However, one critical aspect of the physician-community plan was not alluded to. We believe that the participation of the forensic medicine specialists is critical. The local or state medical examiners' offices should be an integral part of the disaster response team because it is a rare disaster that does not include fatalities. The medical examiners and their forensic teams are needed at several levels. One, and the most immediate, is the need to identify correctly the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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