Word: medico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
When Nam Tha was running well with native nurses trained in the hospital, Medico turned it over to the Laos government. Dr. Dooley returned to the U.S. to deliver another book (The Edge of Tomorrow) and more lectures, raise funds for a similar pioneering hospital at Muong Sing. He had been there close to a year when cancer struck. This week, about to undergo surgery in St. Louis, Dr. Dooley is full of plans to open more hospitals in Laos...
...medical school Njoroge got the idea for his African hospital, sold it to Medico, a division of the International Rescue Committee, which persuaded U.S. drug manufacturers to donate $100,000 worth of medicines, other U.S. manufacturers to supply $40,000 worth of equipment and surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose...
...removed as possible from the life patterns of Madison Avenue and La Salle Street. Other diseases present similar paradoxes. Last week, at hearings on a bill to set up a $50-million-a-year National Institute of International Medical Research, Senators heard Dr. Peter D. Comanduras of Medico, a voluntary aid group, cite these examples...
...Since his release from an Allied P.O.W. camp in 1945, and a stint as a lumberjack, he has been supporting his wife and six children as a general practitioner in the little town of Bad Kreuznach in Rhine province. Last week he learned that Stockholm's Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute, only 27 years behind the times, had named him, together with Richards and Cournand, to share the 1956 Nobel Prize for medicine ($38,633). Said the German country doctor: "I feel like a village pastor who is suddenly informed that he has been made a cardinal...