Of all the difficult campaigns now being conducted by Americans in South Viet Nam, one of the most productive is the work of a handful of civilians.
They are U.S. doctors, largely surgeons, who have volunteered to work without pay for at least two months in the republic's pathetically few and ill-equipped general hospitals. Their patients are the 15.5 million civilians for whom there is, in effect, only one Vietnamese doctor available for every 50,000well over 50 times worse than the physician-patient ratio in the U.S.
$10 a Day. Viet Nam's townsfolk and peasantry have always been prey to tuberculosis, malaria, cholera...
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