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...high Sierra for Karefa-Smart...
...Sometimes, this will have to happen," Karefa-Smart says. "It will not be easy for the doctor, but you have to think of how many lives can be saved with the money that might buy one kidney dialysis machine. You have to set priorities, think of the community. Sometimes you will appear a villain...
Americans, Karefa-Smart has found, would usually rather be the hero. "The American success story has always been that of the individual," he explains. "Supposedly, an individual can by his own efforts rise from lowly cabin boy to president. So the individual tends to look after himself. True community health and capitalism may well be antagonistic...
While his years in the west have taught him the techniques of modern medicine, the workings of power, and the comfort one man may occasionally achieve, Karefa-Smart has resisted the indivudal-oriented outlook--he says he still thinks like an African...
...Karefa-Smart continues to look toward his homeland, writing to friends there, sure that he must return, determined that he will. But he says he is afraid that should he return people might say, "Ah, Karefa-Smart is back. Perhaps better days are at hand." And the political turmoil will begin again...