In the NYT's live-blog of Hurricane Sandy's impact on NYC today, a riveting account of the NYU hospital evacuation as told through the case of Christine Chin, who has had a series of operations after part of her husband's liver was used to replace her cancerous one. The hospital lost power during the storm surge Monday night, and its backup generators also proved vulnerable.
First-person account of Sandy hospital evacuation for cancer patient with recent liver transplant
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