Photo of a hospital medicine cabinet in Haiti

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This is a photo of the medicine cabinet at a volunteer-run hospital in Port-au-Prince. All the drugs are donated, and because there is no organized system of distributing meds, the doctors and nurses simply take them off these shelves as deemed necessary. My friend Jenny just spent a few weeks there doing triage work and took this photo.

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Lisa Katayama

I'm a contributing editor here at Boing Boing. I also have a blog (TokyoMango), a book (Urawaza), and I freelance for Wired, Make, the NY Times Magazine, PRI's Studio360, etc. I'm @tokyomango on Twitter.

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