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Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
May 9, 2018 · Thomas Anthony Dooley [1], 1927–61, American physician and author, b. St. Louis, Mo., grad. Univ. of Notre Dame, M.D. St. Louis Univ., 1953. In 1954, Dooley supervised the care and treatment of thousands of refugees from North Vietnam. He described this experience in Deliver Us from Evil (1956).
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 is a book written by James T. Fisher, providing a historical discussion of Thomas Anthony Dooley III, an American medical missionary who worked in Vietnam and Laos in the 1950s and early 1960s.
- James T. Fisher
- 1997
Oct 29, 2020 · Throughout the mid-to-late 1950s, Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley III was widely celebrated as embodying the great and unselfish good of American aid. His humanitarian medical assistance in rural areas of Laos and Vietnam during the early U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia was widely praised.
Thomas Anthony Dooley was a "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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 15, 1991 · On the day Tom Dooley died, his clinic in Laos was overrun by the Pathet Lao. Thousands turned out for Dooley’s funeral, in the snow, in St. Louis.
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Jan 18, 2024 · Dr. Thomas A. Dooley of St. Louis treats a woman at one of his hospitals in Laos in 1959, shortly before he returned to the United States for the first of two treatments for cancer that...
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