http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/world/europe/french-surgeon-jacques-beres-recalls-slipping-into-syria-last-month.html?hp
A moving portrait of a man, not unlike me in appearance and close to my age, with similar personal and political values, but Dr. Jacques Bérès chose and pursued a much more directly activist life as a surgeon, repeatedly putting himself and his skills of healing into the midst of war — Vietnam, Liberia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq —
and this February in Syria, where he operated on 89 people in Homs, the Syrian city whose people have suffered most in recent months. Of those he treated, all but nine survived.
Dr. Bérès was a co-founder of Doctors Without Borders 40 years ago. Read, watch and weep.