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- LETTERS, Page 10Medics with a Mission
-
- Praise is due those young doctors and nurses serving
- neglected areas of the world (MEDICINE, Jan. 16), but why
- shouldn't lots of us in our youthful 60s go too? We are no
- longer wanted by the economic sectors in Western countries, but
- there are places that badly need any assistance, not just
- medical care. Surely somewhere our helping hands could be used.
-
- Anton Verhoeff Nesles-la-Vallee, France
-
- Doctors and nurses are not only risking their lives but
- succeeding in them too.
-
- Yngve Soleim Oslo
-
- You covered only the good side of the story. There is,
- unfortunately, also a bad side. The introduction, with the best
- intentions, of improved medical techniques and technology,
- along with new agricultural and industrial methods, has been
- directly responsible for the population explosion in the Third
- World.
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- John A. Wagar Berlin
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