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Wi fch Doctors of Laos Working Unofficially on Dooley's Staff (Continued From Page One) bamboo splints around that. That treatment is better than most of their medicine, which is usually a wholesale, all-purpose 'cure-all made of cow dung, tobacco juice and other "miracle" substances. While I was eating breakfast one morning with Dr. Dooley, I witnessed an example of his "fee- splitting" technique. A woman- came in who had a INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Sales AND Service LIVESAY MOTOR EQUIP.

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Dr. Dooley had removed it in his first surgery here and only a slight scar is observable today. In appreciation, she and her husband had trudged for two hours through a driving rain to bring Dr. Dooley two coconuts. He sent one of them to his colleagues, the witch doctors.

The Laos have a name for any unexplained illness or death. It is "grippe alomique." And they are very positive about it. It has caused many deaths, they ihink Thus our testing of atom bombs in the South Pacific brings only fear and some anger to these peaceful, happy and land-locked people. At the hospital sick call 1 sat beside Dr. Dooley and we discussed each patient, the symptoms, the diagnosis and the treatment.

He can talk pretty good Lao, medicine-wise. But all oi these eight tribes speak a language not understood by others. Thai's the reason for interpreters. Then the first patient came in. The patient, a youth of about 25, had had his left arm amputated.

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He had nassive hypoproteinuria, a se- ere case of malnutrition. When ic slopped nursing he no longer proper food. He had enough but it was not balanced. Use of mercurials had helped lim.and Dr. was able to order that treatment stopped.

He being fed an all-purpose high irotein food provided by "Food "or Millions," another American irogram, al a cost of 31 cents a neal. After that came a steady stream of patients, with a variety of diseases. Dr. Dooley treated them Illicitly, efficiently. Cholera, cancer and leprosy cases fill the beds his hospital's wards.

There is always another patient to treat. When the Laos tribesmen work- ng at Dr. Dooley's Nam Tha lospital discovered he was return- ng to the U. S. ori'' 1 Sept.

1 for several months, they immediately arranged a festive rite called a Buddhist Baci. When we gathered at Hie hos- )ital, a cone of flowers three and i half feet high occupied the cen- er of the porch. Around it itx-sil yer bowls was fruit and other bods to appease Buddha and the jood spirits. It was not food for us. Dr.

Dooley turned over the hospital and all its supplies and equipment--even i a equipment---to the Laos government to carry on the work he began in this remote spot five miles trom the Red Chinese border. In the government will pay the salaries of the help, buy rice to the patients, provide the drugs. The Baci was to honor Dr. Doo ey and to acquire all his "good spirits" for the continued operation of the hospital. While many 'persons in Saigor attack Dr.

Dooley's book, "Deliv er Us From Evil," the only criti cism of his "Operation Laos' comes down to this: "He is doing a good job, bui Lo what purppse? When he leaves it will end." Or, "He just out here to write another book." Well, he is going to write an other book. But a to spend many months in such spots ar. Vang Vieng and Nam Tha to write a book. And he has well answered the first and what' appeared to be a sound criticism, that was done by turning his hospital over to the government with all of his drugs and equipment. Laos already ha sent a young medical graduate here lo take over.

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Dooley when ic returns to Laos next year. SICK CALL AT NAM THA HOSPITAL finds Dr. Dooley'handing out pills and sago advice to Laos natives. "The witch doctors do incantations; I give penicillin," he says. tried to dp a job of American niblic relations.

I thought it a Jood thing for them to sec four ine young Americans walking around their village, interested in and helping them. "I want Americans to know that this kind of a job can be done by very ordinary puys like we are. They don't have to be Albeit or millionaires. These wo Notre Dame boys wrote to me saying they admired what I was doing and they would like help. They were picked out of dozens who wrote such John dc Vitry, of Bainbridge, and Bob Waters, of Fort Lau-' derdale, plan lo leave by boat with Dr.

Dooley. They arc believed to be the first white men ever to go down the Nam Tha River. 11 was a dangerous cruise. In Thailand, they left the boat and flew to Vientiane. Along the river they stopped at each village and treated the sick until the medicines they were able to carry with were gone.

Speaking of Dr. Schweitzer, Dr. Dooley planned lo visit the great musician, organ-builder, religions leader, philosopher and physician in A i a his wnv back to the U. S. But I.civn testify to the strong' est recommendation any man can get.

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