Dooley, Thomas Anthony

Dooley, Thomas Anthony

▪ American physician
born Jan. 17, 1927, St. Louis, Mo.
died Jan. 18, 1961, New York City

      “jungle doctor” whose lectures and books recounted his efforts to supply medical aid to peoples of less developed countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.

      A graduate of St. Louis University medical school (M.D. 1953), he was serving with the U.S. Navy as a medical officer when the end of French rule in Indochina in 1954 resulted in of an independent but divided Vietnam. Volunteering for duty in the American effort to evacuate refugees from North to South Vietnam, Dooley instituted rigorous public-health measures and organized the processing of more than 600,000 Vietnamese for evacuation between September 1954 and May 1955.

      He published a popular account of the operation, Deliver Us from Evil (1956), and left active service to lecture in the United States. He used proceeds from lectures and book sales to establish a small hospital in Nam Tha, northern Laos. After another American lecture tour and the publication of The Edge of Tomorrow (1958), Dooley helped found the Medical International Corporation (Medico) to provide medical teams and hospital facilities in eight less-developed nations, most of them in Southeast Asia.

      Dooley was highly regarded in the United States, but some of his colleagues in Asia regarded him as an egotist who allowed medical services to deteriorate while he engaged in self-promotion. He wrote The Night They Burned the Mountain (1960) to answer such criticism. He returned to Laos from the United States after surgery for a malignant tumour in 1959, but he did not survive a recurrence of the illness.

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