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Haitian Victim Turns Down Trip To Navy Hospital

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 01/21/2010 - 8:00am

A Haitian woman with two broken legs got good care at a field hospital staffed by the International Medical and Surgical Response Team.

Doctors arranged to have her moved to the Comfort, a U.S. Navy ship where she can have a permanent rod placed in each leg.

The problem is: she doesn't want to go.

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