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INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AID Previous Volume 351:2576-2578 December 16, 2004 Number 25 Next

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It is an accepted part of a doctor's job to awaken at night to an emergency call. But in many parts of Colombia, such a visit is often reason for a doctor to shudder with fear. The people knocking on your door may wield guns as they summon you to tend to their ill or wounded compatriots. If you refuse, you might be killed. Yet if you go with them, another armed faction may kill you as a collaborator. If the government discovers you cooperated with any of them, you may be interrogated or detained. This is Colombia's "low-intensity conflict," . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Médecins sans Frontières, New York (B.R.) and Bogotá, Colombia (S.M.).

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