Word: bui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Wilmot Doctors Clinic is situated in half of a shabby, cinder-block building just off the main street. In the other half is a nursing home owned by the mayor. Since Dr. De left for Michigan in December 1977, Dr. Bui has been running the clinic alone. In May, with the approval of the town, he resigned from the Health Service Corps and the clinic is now a private facility. "He has his own business now. How large it grows depends on how hard he wants to work," says Mayor Place. "We are trying to make him as happy...
Most days Dr. Bui, 44, a slight, shy man with a boyish cowlick, is up by 6 a.m. and on his way in his 1975 Ford Granada to Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village, Ark., 35 miles away. By 10 a.m. he is back in his clinic...
...Bui sees 15 to 20 patients a day. Most are poor and black, their ailments mainly heart trouble, high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes. Just before noon the hospital calls to tell him that an obstetrical patient is in the last stages of labor. Bui hurries to his 1975 Ford Granada for a trip he sometimes has to make four times a day (half an hour each way). He speeds toward Lake Village, chain-smoking Vantage 100s, but when he reaches the town, he is too late. Barbara Jones is already lying on the delivery table smiling at her newborn...
...lunchtime, Bui pulls into the driveway of the spacious four-bedroom, $36,000 house that he and his wife Simone have just bought and renovated. Three beautiful almond-eyed children rush up to greet him. "Gimmee some Co-ak," shouts 5½-year-old Thienan (nicknamed Firecracker) in a disconcerting Southern drawl. "I speak Vietnamese to him and he answers me in English," says Dr. Bui. Thien Nga, who at 3½ is nearly as tall as her brother, and Jo Ann, 2, both born in the U.S., compete for Bui's attention. The household also includes 14-year...