by Maurice Ramirez | Jun 7, 2007 | Mitigate, Respond
Today’s Senate and House hearings regarding the recent events surrounding the globe-trotting travels of Andrew Speaker, the now world-famous patient with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis highlights the fact that quarantine does not work. The problem is that the...
by Maurice Ramirez | Jan 9, 2007 | Lessons Learned, Respond
My service at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans in the first days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina are the highlight of my career as both a disaster responder and a medical professional. Surprisingly, it is not the fact that I reorganized...
by Maurice Ramirez | Jan 2, 2007 | Lessons Learned, Respond
It is a common misconception that only a large-scale disaster or thousands of protesters will get the immediate attention of the government or large corporations. On December 29, 2006, I saw this misconception proven wrong. It was an average day in our busy...
by Maurice Ramirez | Feb 25, 2006 | Respond
Two economic sectors dominate the field when it comes to decision-making: one operates on a resource-based model and the other runs on a continuous crisis model. Many organizations choose the latter model because they place tremendous emphasis on saving money minute...
