{"id":147,"date":"2010-02-13T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/the-good-doctors-do.html"},"modified":"2010-02-13T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:38:11","slug":"the-good-doctors-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/the-good-doctors-do.html","title":{"rendered":"The good doctors do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lukwiya.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/lukwiya.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>A New York Times story today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/12\/world\/americas\/13doctors.html?ref=world\">doctors who rushed to Haiti to do rescue work<\/a>, and who feel emotionally broken over those they weren&#8217;t able to help contains this haunting passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Uganda, three weeks away from her return to Haiti, Dr. Bellino said she could not stop wondering how the 12-year-old Mystil had fared after his amputation.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nReached in Africa, Dr. Bellino sighed. &#8220;I can breathe now,&#8221; she said after learning that Mystil was all right.<br \/>\nLying on the mattress, with tired, sad eyes, Mystil had said he missed &#8220;Dr. Elizabeth.&#8221; Asked if he wanted the doctor to bring him anything when she returned to Haiti, Mystil said: &#8220;Toys, I guess. I know &#8212; a bicycle!&#8221;<br \/>\nThen, looking down at his bandaged stump, the boy slapped his forehead and buried his face in a pillow. &#8220;I forgot,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All this brought to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/02\/18\/magazine\/dr-matthew-s-passion.html\">an incredible story the Times&#8217; Blaine Harden published nine years ago about Dr. Matthew Lukwiya<\/a> (pictured here), a Ugandan physician who refused to abandon his position in a field hospital when Ebola raged. The gruesome virus took the life of Dr. Matthew, who was a fervent Evangelical Christian, but not before he was able to contain the outbreak by staying in place and choosing to die.  From the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Father Odong, the vicar general of Gulu, said that he hoped his friend&#8217;s story will offer his fellow Africans a new definition of what it means to be a big man in Africa. &#8221;It is not about getting rich and having power,&#8221; he said. &#8221;We should tell everyone the story of Dr. Matthew.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please read the whole story of Dr. Matthew&#8217;s life, and death &#8212; the very last paragraph is breathtaking. This man was a saint, in the fullest sense of the word, but I believe there are physician-saints like him wherever there is great suffering and need. 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