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Boy that article brings back a lot of memories. If anyone can break the ice when it comes to gaining ground with the indig it has always been the medics. I had a Montagnard walk 18 kilometers with a broken femur just to come see our medics. Seems that the last time we passed thru his village he had treated his daughter for a nasty skin disease which was "uncureable by the local spirits" so if that worked then a broken leg should be easy to fix. Turns out this guy was the village chief which paid big benefits later when we got them to move their village without the normal human sacrifice that was the norm to appease the lightning god. But that is another story.
Jack Moroney
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