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Alois I. Vasicka, MD
New York Medical College Bronx

Jaroslav F. Hulka, MD
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

JAMA. 1990;263(24):3257.

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To the Editor.—

On December 29, 1989, Czechoslovak democracy was reborn when the National Assembly elected Vaclav Havel as the new President. The midwives of this rebirth were students, who went on strike, dared police brutality, and inspired the forces that pushed the old regime out. The country ended 41 years of Communist isolation and must now consider what steps to take to revitalize its economy and society. The new leaders do not beg for help from abroad, but they make it clear that they would welcome it. These events present an opportunity to the American medical community to revive and expand a short-lived noble experiment, the American Medical Teaching Mission of 1946 through 1948.

A similar opportunity presented itself at the end of World War II. The country had emerged with the rest of Europe from 6 years of war and occupation, during which the Nazis halted all . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West), and Don Riesenberg, MD, Senior Editor.

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