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issues & Trends First Responders Natural disaster or terrorist attack, pharmacists are a vital part of relief efforts Alaina Scott Inside the trunk of Lee Joffee’s car is a suitcase packed with combat boots and a camouflage uniform, neatly folded and waiting to be worn. He’s not in the military. The suitcase means that Joffee is prepared for the next disaster, natural or otherwise. A s a member of one of 100 medical relief teams, Joffee must be on the road within six hours of notiﬁcation to deploy after disaster strikes. “We just never know when we’re going to go,” Joffee said. “You really need to be ready all of the time.” Like Joffee, hundreds of pharmacists throughout the United States assisted in some way with relief efforts following Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in September. Some pharmacies donated funds. Some pharmacists left their homes to help provide medication to victims, while several organizations came together to support the continued delivery of drugs to people who desperately needed them. “Pharmacists play a really crucial part of hurricane relief efforts,” Joffee said. “You never know what illnesses, outbreaks, or reactions people are going to have during a national or state emergency. Pharmacists can help patients get the medications they need in those situations.” Disaster veteran Joffee, an RPh and deputy commander of the New York-2 branch of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), ﬁrst got involved with emergency relief in the mid-’90s when he was asked to assess New York City’s preparedness for a terrorist attack. “It was interesting, because I found out that I knew just about nothing, even though I was a really well-informed pharmacist,” he recalled. “I could tell you what you take for your pneumonia, but I had no idea what the antidote for anthrax was at that point. I found that really scary.” Joffee eventually joined DMAT, a network of national medical relief teams funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is called in to assist with W W W.D R U GTO P I C S .C O M 22 DRUG TOPICS N OV. 10, 2008 GETTY IMAGES / HURRICANE; COURTESY OF DMAT http://WWW.DRUGTOPICS.COM

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