Word: decins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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August 1968 was a traumatic month for all Czechs, but it was piquantly and privately so for Vlasta Gabriel, the young mother of two small children. Ten days after Warsaw Pact armies rumbled into Czechoslovakia. Vlasta's husband Bedrich, an electrician and occasional truck driver in Decin, bundled the couple's children into the family car and defected to the West. He eventually settled with his émigré mother in Yucaipa, Calif., (pop. 26,000) and died of lung cancer not long after. Vlasta plunged into a lonely, uphill custody battle for her son and daughter...
What brought Henry and Chillquist together was Medex, a unique program that recruits former military medics to work as doctors' helpers. The program, which takes its name from the French médecin extension (extension of the physician), was conceived in 1968 by Dr. Richard Smith, a professor of health services at the University of Washington. Smith had surveyed his state and found a serious imbalance between urban and rural medical services. While the Seattle area had one doctor for every 506 patients, the ratio in some rural areas stood at 1 to 5,000. "We found doctors...
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