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Playing in Columbia is always a humbling and odd experience. The only team in the country to play its home games on clay, Columbia also plays in the close confines of "the Bubble," which has only four courts as opposed to the customary...
...Freshman Clay Bischoff sailed his Laser to a fourth-place finish in the C Division...
Before the technology, however, came philanthropy. In June 1999, Dan Clay, a California emergency-room physician, set up a charity clinic on the outskirts of Mitrovica. Kadriu soon heard about it and went to see "Dr. Dan." Like every other doctor who was later to meet the young man, Clay was shocked. He also recognized that the injury was far beyond his expertise to treat. "I've spent half my career in ERs in some of the most violent cities in America, seen all kinds of mangled human beings, but I've never come across anyone still alive carrying such...
Working with a Royal Army Medical Corps doctor who had an unsophisticated telemedicine link to the outside world--nothing more than a couple of standard digital cameras, a laptop, a satellite phone and an AOL account--Clay was able to put details of Besim's case and photos of his face on the Internet. The photos were copied and recopied in e-mail to surgeons across Britain who had responded to a British Medical Journal article appealing for help for Kosovo victims. The complexities of coordinating surgeons' timetables meant that plans for Kadriu's operation began to coalesce around Manchester...
Digital pictures of Besim Kadriu continue to flash across the Internet, keeping the band of doctors following his case informed of his progress. In California, Dan Clay has been especially thrilled to see the images. "I think I will always rate downloading those photos from Manchester as one of the greatest moments of my medical career," he says. "He looks beautiful...