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Address at National Chang-Kung University Medical College at the 15TH Anniversary.
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In
LoTung, the opthalmologist, Dr. Chen Wu Fu, saw
the needs of the blind people learn an occupation,
a technique, so he built an institute called for
this purpose and paid for its operation out of
his own clinic. |
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Of
course, you all know of Dr. Schweitzer, the German
Christian doctor and pastor and musician, who
gave up a pleasant life in Germany and went to
be a missionary doctor in Africa, as he said,
"to repay Africa for what western countries had
taken from it." |
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I
will add one more example of someone who took
an interest in people with a special need. But
she is not a doctor! Diana, Princess of Wales,
before she died, felt sorry for those innocent
people, farmers and country people, who had been
injured by land-mines. The wars in Vietnam and
Africa had ceased, but land-mines were still scattered
around, invisible in the ground. People stepping
on them would lose one or both legs. Diana made
trips to the countries in Africa and met those
people who had lost one or both legs-to see them
and comfort them. By doing so, she called the
attention of the world to a neglected problem:
how to get rid of the mines. |
My
speech is at an end.
I should like to ask, for what reason you decided to
study to be a doctor?
"I need money to support my family, to send my children
to good schools; my brothers are poor-they need help
for the education of their children." Nothing wrong
with that!
"The intellectual stimulus of medical practice, research,
and teaching." Nothing wrong with that!
But maybe it is not enough!
There are people with special needs!
What about prisoners, the forgotten people of society?
Are their medical and health needs adequately met?
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