Doctor who lost everything to tsunami works tirelessly at refugee shelter

[AsahinaKimi]

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A doctor, whose clinics were wrecked and home flooded by the March 11 tsunami, is busy treating evacuees at a shelter here.

Jun Sato, 60, remembered his late father's words, "Doctors must not refuse to treat patients if they ask for it," when he saw evacuees at a shelter shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.

Sato himself leads a difficult life as an evacuee, but he continues to treat patients because he does not want to defy his father's words.

"Any problem? You're all right, aren't you?" Sato says to one patient who complains he feels sick. The patient appears relieved at the doctor's words.

Sato works in the nurse's office at Miyagi Prefectural Ishinomaki High School -- a designated evacuation center -- along with doctors and nurses from Ishinomaki Municipal Hospital, which was wrecked by tsunami. More than two weeks after the disaster, a growing number of people taking shelter at the school are complaining of colds and constipation.

Sato, his two brothers and his brother-in-law run two clinics first opened by his father Seikichi in 1950. One of them was destroyed after being hit by tsunami waves while the other was badly damaged. However, he has no time to deal with the destruction at the clinics or his home.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110329p2a00m0na016000c.html

[suffragette]

1. K&R

[Taverner]

2. Hell, that's what I'd do

In a way, he was "liberated" from his possessions

Great - now that I've said that, I'm sure the haves and have mores would LOVE to "liberate" us all from our possessions...

[jwirr]

3. Good for him. Living proof that your education is the one thing they

cannot take away from you.

[girl gone mad]

4. k & r

[fascisthunter]

5. take a look right wing ding dongs... this is a REAL Hero

not your phony pr shit.

[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

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