at our lady of the lake regional medical center in my hometown of baton rouge. thank you for joining us, doctor. i know you re busy, but we re so glad that you re here to give the information and tell the story. it s still a search and rescue operation with an unknown number of injured. are you seeing patients arrive at your hospital yet? we are. it seems like the floodgates opened today and all the campuses in our network, a lot of patients coming by ambulance, by private vehicle for typical complaints but also for complaints probably related to the hurricane. yeah. state health officials are saying that some smaller hospitals had to evacuate tonight after being damaged in the storm. you know, beds were already in short supply. how much of a strain is this on the system? it s going to be a strain on the system. fortunately we didn t suffer any catastrophic damage at our lady of the lake or any of our hospitals in the baton rouge region. we ve had a little bit of damage
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