Thursday, October 16, 2014

Bill Cassidy wants to be the doctor he believes the U.S. Senate needs






Bill Cassidy wants to be the doctor he believes the U.S. Senate needs 


Friends describe Cassidy as a go-getter, someone who likes to solve problems in his private and professional life. It wasn't a surprise to them when Cassidy -- a doctor who had yet to enter public life -- set up a makeshift hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

Three days after the storm hit, Cassidy organized hundreds of volunteers to help turn an abandoned Baton Rouge K-Mart into a temporary medical center. He was concerned South Louisiana's hospitals weren't going to have enough capacity to treat all of the victims of the disaster.  

"Katrina hit Louisiana and there was a sense that our leadership had failed. There was a whole city that has was unable to evacuate out of a Category IV storm at first. And then, as it turns out, leadership after the storm failed," said Cassidy. 

No comments:

Post a Comment