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Thomas Anthony Dooley III, 32, was doing what he liked best. Born to affluence in St. Louis, he had become a Navy medic, been caught up in the soul-searing 1954 evacuation of anti-Communist refugees from North Viet Nam, returned to Asia to set up hospitals in the remotest parts of Red-threatened northern Laos. There, three months ago, "Dr. Tom" was trudging along a snag-strewn jungle trail from his hospital at Muong Sing, only five miles from the Chinese border, to make a "house call" when he fell and bumped his right chest. It felt like nothing...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...
Typewriter Therapy. In the five years since Dienbienphu's fall, high-strung Tom Dooley gained international prominence. He was so appalled by the wretchedness of the 610,000 refugees who passed through his camp that a physician friend advised him to act out his hostilities on a typewriter. The result was Deliver Us from Evil, a 1955 bestseller...
...Navy, Dr. Dooley persuaded the International Rescue Committee to set up Medico (Medical International Cooperation) to sponsor hospitals in remote, underdoctored areas. Meanwhile, he made use of his immense energy, considerable Irish charm and silver tongue to get equipment and supplies: drug and instrument manufacturers have donated material, several individual gifts topping $100,000. For ready cash, Dr. Dooley plowed in his book royalties and the proceeds from grueling lecture tours, once raised $10,000 (largely in dimes and quarters) from a single, heartfelt appeal on Dave Garroway's Today program...
...Chicken for a Baby. Then he went back to the jungle. For his first hospital, Dr. Dooley picked Nam Tha, a tiny village in north Laos. The royal government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken...