med st. South not ser or Doctors Without
Borders offers medical care to people in
war-torn regions of the world
hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with dr. James masks Alec about his six
months in Sudan with this organization
can you give us some background on the
situation over there many people don’t
know but there was a war that lasted for
twenty years and was Africa’s longest
and its largest that drove you know
millions of people from their homes
everyone knows Sudan from Darfur but the
longer war in Sudan just ended so in
2005 a peace agreement was signed and it
delineated a border that everyone agreed
upon except about a ba – were thousands
of people coming back in the year that I
was there so I myself was there to give
medical care to the returnees but also
to watch for war because everyone knew
the piece was very fragile and they
could change at any time my experience
was largely medical as a doctor you know
my first day I woke up someone’s
knocking on my door and said we need you
to the hospital right away there’s been
an accident
so you know it’s my first day run put my
stethoscope on and run to the hospital
it was such a big crowd outside of it
and I didn’t recognize anyone I had to
push my way inside and I didn’t know
where anyone was and my patients were I
didn’t know medicines we had and so I
was like well this is this is this is
how it’s gonna be
there’s six months in this I don’t know
that’s gonna be tough
you know there were times in my mission
and I speak about it in my book and I
think it’s probably truly the experience
of many people that you don’t really
know why you’re there
everyone’s dying you can’t really do
anything there you know it doesn’t seem
like I seem to get any better and you
have those moments of indecision in
doubt you have to remember maybe you’re
not tipping that grand scale of the
world towards an easier future for
generations of people but you made a
difference in that kid’s life
and so I think that kind of reminding
yourself properly placing yourself in
the world is important can you just kind
of outline six months in Sudan the book
so it was a really ideal opportunity for
me to tell the story of that place can
you come back with this kind of urgency
inside of you this world that you’ve
been given insight to that you can’t
really share with your family and
friends you don’t know how so what I had
as a back bone was the blog which
provided this long narrative swing
between the blog post I write scenes and
I think the effect is kind of like you
know when you pass a train you can see
flecks of scenes through the other one
and you can get an idea of maybe what
that was like not only was it six months
long but he was that wide as well too so
that’s what I tried to do when you
initially wrote the book did you write
it as a call to arms for people I think
everyone knows world needs repair
I think we’ve never even been more clear
about it than in the past few years even
if people don’t have a chance to go
spend six months in Sudan one month
anywhere and something like it to
properly understand the world that you
live in I think probably helps you act
correctly in your day
Borders offers medical care to people in
war-torn regions of the world
hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with dr. James masks Alec about his six
months in Sudan with this organization
can you give us some background on the
situation over there many people don’t
know but there was a war that lasted for
twenty years and was Africa’s longest
and its largest that drove you know
millions of people from their homes
everyone knows Sudan from Darfur but the
longer war in Sudan just ended so in
2005 a peace agreement was signed and it
delineated a border that everyone agreed
upon except about a ba – were thousands
of people coming back in the year that I
was there so I myself was there to give
medical care to the returnees but also
to watch for war because everyone knew
the piece was very fragile and they
could change at any time my experience
was largely medical as a doctor you know
my first day I woke up someone’s
knocking on my door and said we need you
to the hospital right away there’s been
an accident
so you know it’s my first day run put my
stethoscope on and run to the hospital
it was such a big crowd outside of it
and I didn’t recognize anyone I had to
push my way inside and I didn’t know
where anyone was and my patients were I
didn’t know medicines we had and so I
was like well this is this is this is
how it’s gonna be
there’s six months in this I don’t know
that’s gonna be tough
you know there were times in my mission
and I speak about it in my book and I
think it’s probably truly the experience
of many people that you don’t really
know why you’re there
everyone’s dying you can’t really do
anything there you know it doesn’t seem
like I seem to get any better and you
have those moments of indecision in
doubt you have to remember maybe you’re
not tipping that grand scale of the
world towards an easier future for
generations of people but you made a
difference in that kid’s life
and so I think that kind of reminding
yourself properly placing yourself in
the world is important can you just kind
of outline six months in Sudan the book
so it was a really ideal opportunity for
me to tell the story of that place can
you come back with this kind of urgency
inside of you this world that you’ve
been given insight to that you can’t
really share with your family and
friends you don’t know how so what I had
as a back bone was the blog which
provided this long narrative swing
between the blog post I write scenes and
I think the effect is kind of like you
know when you pass a train you can see
flecks of scenes through the other one
and you can get an idea of maybe what
that was like not only was it six months
long but he was that wide as well too so
that’s what I tried to do when you
initially wrote the book did you write
it as a call to arms for people I think
everyone knows world needs repair
I think we’ve never even been more clear
about it than in the past few years even
if people don’t have a chance to go
spend six months in Sudan one month
anywhere and something like it to
properly understand the world that you
live in I think probably helps you act
correctly in your day
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