A Frog Out of a Deep Well

A Board-certified general surgeon recalls the abject impoverished condition of his childhood in a wartime Chinese countryside. He observed with revolting indignity of how the downtrodden and trampled poor lived. He joined the revolutionaries in the Communist campaign hoping to catapult them to become the master of the new country. He failed to see that dream to become a reality. He reminisced the generosity of many mentors, missioners and local clergy to overcome the odds. He enrolled to Mi...