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| Description | Vice-President Richard M. Nixon introduces this film, which outlines the work of American physicians abroad. In Pusan, Korea, the work of the Catholic order of the Maryknoll Sisters in operating a clinic in the slums and visiting the sick in their homes is shown. On an island near Hong Kong, Drs. Olaf Skinsons, Neil Frazer, and Douglas Harmon work with lepers. In the Sarawak town of Kapit in Malaysia, Dr. Harold Brewster works with a tribe of former headhunters whose major health problems are malaria, tuberculosis, intestinal parasites, and dysentery. Dr. Brewster and his staff are shown traveling by longboat to live for three or four days at a time in the long houses of the natives, to treat them and attempt to teach them basic hygiene. In Rangoon, Burma, Dr. Phillips Green works in the Rangoon General Hospital as an orthopedic surgeon. In Kathmandu, Nepal, Dr. Bethal Fleming describes her work in a hospital she helped to establish. In Tensin, Nepal, a remote Himalayan village, Dr. Fr |
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| Author | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994., Scourby, Alexander, 1913-1985., Council on Drugs (American Medical Association), Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. |
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Attribution: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994., Scourby, Alexander, 1913-1985., Council on Drugs (American Medical Association), Smith, Kline & French Laboratories.