Word: koi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help. "As fire began to sweep the town" (one of the many to which Seagrave moved his base) "we returned to our operating tables. ... I simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along...
...While we were operating after the bombing-I had four operating tables going at once with nurses finishing the operations after I had done the most essential part, and Koi [one of the nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was there. As soon as he got to Maymyo he sent down the only U.S. Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay...