Serving the injured and dying strengthen Harvard docs

TACLOBAN CITY — Seeing their work as the purest way to help, doctors from Harvard University were drawn here to deliver much needed medical attention to the injured and the dying in typhoon-ravaged areas previously unreached by medical workers.

Four emergency physicians specializing in disaster medicine from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Disaster Medicine Fellowship, the training hospital for Harvard University, did not hesitate to come here and help as they connected with those in need in the name of human compassion.

In their late 20s and 30s, the Harvard doctors reached Tacloban City on Nov. 19, 11 days after the world’s strongest typhoon this year smashed much of the central Philippines on Nov. 8./INQUIRER