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exception. In MSF, most staff were not really doctors but
support and backup staff working hard to provide the frontline
with the resources they needed. Most doctors working in the
MSF were in for the thrill, the adrenaline rush, the feeling of
doing something so dramatic and dangerous, it gave them the
feeling of being alive. Lack of medicines were usually due to
lack of profit for the pharmaceutical companies. The book
tries to balance the real world and the one we pictured, where
there were good, there were bad. While in a love-hate
relationship with this book, I loved reading how my heroes
were nothing but humans, who had to overcome their own
flaws and weaknesses, just like me, and hated to learn that
most unfortunate situations they were in were created by the
evil politicians of these countries.

For doctors in any specialty, this book is a must-read, to
satisfy that dream we forgotten we all had: to help the people
who really needed our help, and to re-ignite that passion we
once possessed when we were training to save lives.

對醫學、社會方面影響：

MSF was established in 1971 by a group of French
doctors who wished to help developing countries in war, to
expand accessibility of medical care across nations without
being funded by any government, so to preserve the status of

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