Cambodia – During nearly four years of Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 1970’s, nearly two million people died including a whole class of people, among them virtually all of the nation’s doctors. The country’s medical system, the education of physicians, was totally wiped out. More than 25 years after the Khmer Rouge were pushed to the far Western reaches of Cambodia, the medical profession is still working to rebuild itself. Among those trying to assist are a handful of foreign surgeons who have made Phnom Penh their home.
