CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the 40-year-old medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, who turned down the position of U.S. surgeon general in 2009, has stepped in to the fill the very void he was sent to Haiti to cover as a journalist. – cnn.com

Dr. Gupta arrived in Haiti on Wednesday, a day after the 7.0 earthquake that shocked the crowded city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The following day Dr. Gupta examined a 15-day-old Haitian baby girl with a head injury whose mother had died in the quake. After placing the child on a wooden plank serving as a makeshift exam table, Dr. Gupta gently probed the baby’s skull for signs of a fracture. He concluded that she didn’t appear to have a fracture, and then he and a producer wrapped the infants head in gauze.