A fortuitous meeting and Minnesota doctors offer an Ethiopian woman a chance at a new life
MN Public Radio - May 11, 2008
Dr. Rick Hodes first met Merdya Abdisa a year ago, when she wandered in to the Catholic Mission where he works on behalf of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Addis Ababa. Hodes is an internal medicine doctor who has lived in Ethiopia for 20 years.
His practice is filled with patients suffering from ailments that have gone untreated for far too long. But he had never seen anything like Merdya's tumor. Listen to feature audio (Real Audio).