ABSTRACT

As a doctor it is easy to diagnose illnesses as you offer a little bag of food and talk for a few minutes to the people. Many are so very polite and want to show their gratitude and they stay close by to talk a little bit. I am thinking of a woman who has the bulging eyes and enlarging neck from thyroid disease. I notice she had a chain tightly around her neck, surely the attempt of the local voudou doctor to stop the growth of her thyroid gland. I see a very old thin man, groaning with bellyache, his legs discolored and ulcerated. I am sure he is diabetic. And I see a very pathetic ten-year-old albino boy. He is doing his best to keep up with all the other children, as curious as they are about us and what we are doing. He has his tee shirt pulled above his head to keep the sun off his pained eyes, since the sunlight hurts his tender retinas. His legs are red from sunburn, and dry and flakey. I can see he already has a patch of