Doc
"Correct me, Lord. But please be gentle." Jeremiah 10:24 New Living Translation
62 years old
Fresno, CA
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Leper colony through the fog
By Doc
created on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 23:06

The original leprosy patients and their children and grandchildren still live in small clusters of simple houses scattered around the hospital grounds. They have some land to grow corn and casava, get vocational training in carpentry, metal work, farming and animal husbandry (and provide furniture, meat, food and methane for the hospital). This picture is taken on a foggy day. One of my surprizes was to find a lot of foggy days in Mbingo. Who would have imagined cool, foggy days in Africa just a few degrees from the equator?

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Activities
short term medical missions in Africa, fly fishing, gardening, wood working
Interests
health care for poor, surgical training in Africa
Music
If it ain't Mozart, it ain't music.
Education
Cal Baptist BA 1965-1969 UC, San Francisco MD 1969-1973 surgical residency--UCSF Central Valley Prgrm 1973-1978 Surg Oncology fellow--VA Medical Center, Fresno CA 1982-1983
Work
missionary surgeon Jibla Baptist Hospital 1979-1985 Private practice of surgery in Fresno, CA 1985-2004 Kaiser-Permanente Department of Surgery, Fresno, CA 2004 to present