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Monday Dec 07, 2015
A Doctor Without Borders: And MSF Surgeon Tells It Like It Really Is.
Monday Dec 07, 2015
Monday Dec 07, 2015
Bob Baxt is a surgeon who spends most of his time these days out of the
country. He works with civilian humanitarian medical services like Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the former hospital ship Hope. He's spent a
lot of time in Africa and has seen what is actually going on there. Bob
states at the outset of the interview that his views are his and do not
represent the views of any government or any organization he has worked
with. But he says we're trying so hard in this country to help the
people in war-torn countries, but we can never understand what is going
on there unless you understand the tribal system that they have used as
their form of government for eons. The concept of a centralized
government isn't even in their consciousness, yet that's what we keep
trying to get them to use.
Bob also steps back some and gives us a brief history of how things got the way they are in Africa.
With the dangers involved, the lack of supplies and sterility, why do Bob and others like him keep going back? Listen and you'll know.
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