The Edge of Tomorrow Author:Thomas A. Dooley, M.D. In August 1956, six Americans brought their medical team to Laos. At Nam Tha, 5 miles from the border of Red China, they built a small bamboo hospital on stilts. Despite anti-American sentiment, so great were the ravages of disease where sanitary conditions were almost unknown, Nam Tha's thirty-five beds were never idle from the moment the hospi... more »tal opened. Cases included leprosy, cholera, whooping cough and dysentery. The team encountered old magic prescribed by village witch doctors. At times the team felt overwhelmed by the immensity of their task, and they asked themselves whether a small medical mission could really combat the onslaught of disease and the appeal of Communism.« less