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Vietnam Doctor: The Story of Project Concern
Vietnam Doctor The Story of Project Concern Author:Dr. James W. Turpin For Jim Turpin the American Dream had come true. He had a lovely wife, four healthy children, a delightful home, a thriving practice. But this was too easy; it did not challenge him as a minister and as a doctor. So he abandoned his life of comfort to begin a career of hardship and sacrifice, helping those who needed it most. This was the beginn... more »ing of Project Concern--a medical mission that has expanded into an international organization staffed by people from all over the world. In 1982 Jim Turpin and his family moved into Hong Kong's dreaded Walled City. Beneath an opium den and across the street from a brothel, the first Project Concern clinic began to treat the 50,000 people who live in this festering slum without a water or sewage system. Soon a second clinic was launched on two barges to serve the 35,000 Chinese who spend their entire lives aboard junks. And at no time, as journalist Franck McCulloch (an old friend) has pointed out, was the Project even close to rich. But when a third and then a fourth clinic had spread Project Concern's mission all over Hong Kong, there were fewer desperate obstacles for Dr. Jim to overcome. And so he moved on--to the guerilla-infested jungles of Vietnam....The Turpin life story is a heroic, warm, and human one--a particularly American story. A vital, dedicated visionary, Jim Turpin is also an engaging, dynamic doer -- who says, "I need these people far more than they need me." Perhaps we all do. Perhaps this is the first step toward a new and lasting solution to the future of Vietnam.« less