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From the minute he set foot in Port au Prince, Haiti, almost two months after the monster earthquake that killed at least 290,000, injured 300,000 and left one million people homeless, Dr. Owen O’Neill witnessed the devastation and despair.

“It’s going to take forever to rebuild that country,” said O’Neill, medical director of the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center. “Going to a place like that and seeing what goes on and all the devastation, we still have to appreciate what we have here. We still have it pretty good here with our health care system.”  more »