Kon Tum, 1969-1970. The Minh Quy hospital there was founded in 1959 by Dr Patricia Smith. Her concern for the Montagnard hill tribesmen inhabiting the area, grew following…
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Our childhood home in the village of Pentrefelin. Soon after the year of my birth 1940, my mother and I were evacuated into the safety of rural Snowdonia.…
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Qui Nhon, October 1967 – December 1968. Joining Save the Children in October 1967 catapulted me into what became my first exposure to the random brutality of armed…
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10 months, 1977-78. Crewing a 50ft Ketch called Fantasy. Learning to harness the wind, read charts and hear dolphins chattering in the phosphorescent wake of a sail boat…
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Sa Keao, October 1979 – December 1980. Picture this, 41,000 displaced Cambodian people fleeing across the border into Thailand. Nothing but the clothes on their backs. Following 4…
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Sidon, July 1983 – December 1984. Sitting high on a hilltop overlooking olive groves and citrus orchards, the Hariri Medical Centre, Sidon was built to give the people…
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Vancouver, April 1965 – May 1966. I nursed in the Emergency Room at the Vancouver General Hospital. This large teaching hospital introduced me to the highest clinical standards…
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