For six weeks in February and March 1980, I served as a physician at Khao-I-Dang, the largest of the camps for Cambodian refugees in Thailand. It was the most moving, sobering, and gratifying experience of my life, and in many ways the most real. My experience and that of many other relief workers probably do not conform to most readers' expectations about what it must be like to work in a refugee camp. My overwhelming sense there was not of death, but of life; not of the Cambodians' ability merely to survive, but of their vitality; not of their grief. . . © 1981, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.

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