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...other side of the world Saigon was falling. Among the thousands of refugees aboard the final military flights in April 1975 were hundreds of doctors, bound first for American bases in the Far East, then for U.S. camps. Bill Johnson, a wealthy farmer and president of Wilmot's doctorless Medical Center Board, saw an opportunity. In May 1975 he went to Fort Chaffee, Ark., on a recruiting mission. There he eagerly agreed to sponsor Dr. Thieu Bui and Dr. Ton That De, both former South Vietnamese army officers...
...Tucson and the Mexican border, legendary and tiny (pop. 1,200) Tombstone, Ariz., has so little to attract a doctor that its people have been without local medical care for much of the past eight years. But now the community where Wyatt Earp shot it out with desperadoes is doctorless no longer. An osteopath named Patrick Lorey, 36, has decided to live in the town for at least seven years. Lorey's decision was not completely voluntary. Convicted last fall of selling amphetamines, Lorey could have been sent to prison. But a state superior court judge, noting that Lorey...
Japan, for all its prosperity, musters only one doctor for 880 people, and there are at least 2,900 muison, or doctorless villages. Even in the U.S., where there is one doctor for every 650 individuals, there are entire counties without a single physician...
...last week, the town had narrowed the candidates down to four, and it hopes to have its new doctor soon. "We had no idea that we could unleash such a landslide of publicity and reaction," Mr. Button says. The ad, he feels, also made the "plight of other small doctorless communities a matter of wide public knowledge...
...Coast Guard runs a service for the Western Atlantic that can put a doctorless ship with an emergency case in touch with the nearest ship that has a doctor. It handles 150 to 200 cases a year. In both Atlantic and Pacific, the Coast Guard will pass requests for medical service to U.S. Public Health Service hospitals and relay the replies. This system handled 2,000 calls last year...