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Matthew Minson

Doctor

Dr. Matthew Minson is the author of the award-winning series of Prepare to Defend Yourself senior and healthcare consumer books published by Texas A&M University Press. He has served as the Senior Medical Officer for Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services..

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

There are very few legitimate scenarios in which we would ever have to evacuate everyone in the Gulf Coast region. But who said it had to be all or none? Nobody with a lot going on upstairs. Upstairs, by the way is where a bunch of people had to go as the waters rose after Hurricane Harvey.