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By Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News Chief medical editor
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nearly a week after the devastating earthquake, victims who sustained crush injuries and broken limbs are now suffering from rampant secondary infections. Faced with an overflow of patients and an ongoing shortage of antibiotics, medical teams have few options for saving lives. Amputation [...]

By Mike Taibbi, NBC News Correspondent
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – There’s a strange feeling of distance here from the disaster in Haiti. Even though it’s just a drive across Hispaniola, over a border that separates the two countries that share the same island – as well as a contentious and often violent history – it [...]

By Bill Dedman, msnbc.com
 
FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — After a tense week at their crumbling orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the dozen children protected by Lifechurch volunteers were evacuated on Monday afternoon to a beautiful orphanage 40 minutes away, nearer the Dominican border. Two of the men and two women stayed behind for the night to guard their [...]

By Kerry Sanders, NBC News Correspondent
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The split-second choices in a disaster of this magnitude can haunt forever.Dr. Marc Grossman knows he had no choice but to choose life over limb, but of course, would have preferred another option.
An emergency room physician at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Grossman is a member of the [...]

By NBC News’ Amna Nawaz and Andrew Scritchfield
ABOARD THE USS Bataan – As the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship carrying over 2,200 Marines headed through the Windward Passage, the strait between Cuba and Haiti in the Caribbean Sea, a small assessment team took off in heavy-lift helicopters to do a visual reconnaissance mission over [...]