11-year-old Haitian patient brought to Mo. hospital

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Dr. Edward Fink was among the first wave of volunteers to arrive in Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake. At Hopital Sacre Coeur, about 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince, most of the injured limbs he and the other surgeons came across were too diseased or mangled to be saved.

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