Unlike many others in the tri-state area, I’m lucky to have retained power and been relatively unaffected by Hurricane Sandy. However, millions of others have been affected, and you can see some of the damage in pictures taken by my friend Munier. As a health sciences student in New York City, my thoughts are especially drawn to NYU Langone hospital, which last night lost power and the use of its generators. All 215 patients who hadn’t previously been discharged had to be evacuated to other nearby hospitals and miraculously, no one’s life was lost in the process. I’m especially awed by the nurses and others who helped carry four newborn babies on respirators down nine flights of stairs, while manually squeezing a bag of air for them. The cooperation and dedication of the NYU staff is an amazing inspiration, and I hope that all of their patients, and everyone else affected by the storm, have full and speedy recoveries!