Raymond Soong, A Doctor without Borders

While I was reading the July issue of the Live magazine in preparation for writing test questions for the freshmen, I came across a familiar name in the article "Raymond Soong, a Doctor without Borders": 宋睿祥. I mentioned the name on Plurk and got confirmation from my former student Etta. Raymond was Etta's classmate at Chieh-show Junior High School, where I taught before coming to NHSH. Etta told me I taught them for two weeks as a substitute teacher.

Raymond Soong is the first Taiwanese member of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The following are two paragraphs from the magazine.

Raymond Soong, a Doctor without Borders

In the hot and crowded emergency room, beds are filled with patients. A young Asian doctor quickly moves from bed to bed as gunshots ring out in the distance. He sews up wounds and operates on patients to save their lives. He is Raymond Soong, the first Taiwanese member of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

While most people try to avoid wars, natural disasters, and outbreaks of diseases, Soong volunteers to treat patients in these conditions. He made the decision after visiting a photo exhibition as a medical student. There, he saw a photograph of a dehydrated child with an intravenous needle in his head. Soong realized with a shock that there were people living lives more terrible than he could imagine. He vowed to go to underdeveloped and war-torn countries and use his medical skills to help people in need. In the years that followed, new railroad tracks were laid across countries and continents, and the trains themselves continued to improve. Private luxury cars, for one, made train travel more comfortable and stylish.

(http://golive.liveabc.com/magazine/flash/2011/raymond/page.asp)

On plurk, Etta introduced me an online Chinese article about Raymond Soong.

http://www.commonhealth.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5014639&page=1

Raymond, Bravo!