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Part two: Nia Naran Doctor Dan

Nia naran dotor dan
(His name is Doctor Dan)

Quite simply, if you haven't heard of him - you haven't actually been to Timor. The Pierre Iowa native has been here since 1998. I have met a lot of activists, a lot of NGO healthcare workers but I have never met someone like Dan Murphy. Doctor Dan received his MD from the University of Iowa. He spent 6 years working with Ceasar Chavez at a clinic for farm workers. He was a doctor in Mozambique, another former Portuguese colony, Laos and Nicaragua. Doctor Dan has worked in East Timor since September 1998, although the Indonesians forced him out in early 1999 during the post-independence ballot destruction of the country. He returned in September 1999 and had been steadfastly working since to provide health care though the Bairo Pite Clinic.

You hear a lot of Doctor Dan stories. When you’re one of the ten overseas volunteers in the Bairo Pite area everyone lines up to tell you their stories, or ones they were told when they first arrived.

I have heard some wild stories.
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