Preparing Hospitals, Doctors, and Nurses for a Terrorist Attack
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
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- Benefits,
- Terrorist Attack,
- Software,
- Human Resources,
- Hudson Institute,
- Hospital,
- Homeland Security,
- Healthcare,
- Health Care,
- Government,
- ...
- Source:
- Hudson Institute
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Overview: During the Cold War, a nuclear attack was the primary threat to American citizens. Hospital administrators and doctors were told to prepare for an enormous number of casualties, even though high-ranking officials whispered in private that there was really very little that the U.S. health care system could do. No amount of planning, they argued, could prepare the health care system for the mass casualties and chaos stemming from a nuclear exchange. With the end of the Cold War, and beginning with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the threat to American civilians has changed. Biological, chemical, and nuclear ("dirty bomb") terrorism now constitute the relevant threats.
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Format: PDF | Size: 96KB | Date: Oct 2002 | Pages: 8
