Treating the Victims in Liberia's Civil War Dr. Andrew
Schechtman reports on his two tours of duty during the revolt
against Charles Taylor. Dr. Andrew Schechtman, a family practice
physician in San Jose, California, has spent a lot of the last
ten years on the front lines of developing country hot spots.
Working as a volunteer with the French-based charity Doctors
Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres), he has treated the
sick and wounded in Uganda, in Guatemala, and most recently,
served two stints as a volunteer doctor in war-torn Liberia.
Schechtman's Liberian diaries have been something of an
international sensation. They were reprinted by the BBC and were
widely quoted by publications such as U.S. News and World
Report, National Geographic, and the Christian Science Monitor.
He recounted his Liberian experiences to an appreciative
audience in a conference room in UCLA's Bunche Hall January 16.
His meeting was cosponsored by the James S. Coleman Center for
African Studies and Doctors Without Borders.