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From New Mexico, with Taos Pueblo and Navajo roots, Linson matter-of-factly describes the poverty of his youth and the inferior health care Native Americans often receive. Both influenced his decision to attend medical school. Now that he's almost through, he says he is trying to decide how best to use his training here to serve his community...
...months in 1993, otherwise healthy young people had been showing up at hospital emergency rooms on the Navajo reservation in northwest New Mexico. At first they complained of flulike symptoms. Then, within hours, most of them died of acute respiratory failure, literally drowning in their own bodily fluids. Frustrated officials with the Indian Health Service, the University of New Mexico and the state's health department put in a call to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In a matter of days, highly trained specialists--essentially a public-health swat team from the premier U.S. government...
...speaks a language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling to outsiders as the Navajo code talkers were to the Japanese military. He rarely praised his staff members, even when he liked them; several left the leader's office frustrated and convinced he didn't, only to be surprised later when they got a call out of the Reagan or Bush White House from someone...
HANTAVIRUS. In 1993 a six-year drought followed by heavy rains produced a tenfold increase in the population of deer mice in the American Southwest, leading to an outbreak of a deadly form of pulmonary hantavirus. The disease, which first appeared on a Navajo reservation, has since spread to 20 states and killed 45 people, nearly half of those infected...
...even need to deal with guilt or innocence. All we have to do is get to the bottom of the problem and say 'How can we help you,'" said Robert Yazzie, chief justice of the Navajo Supreme Court, and a guest speaker at the event...