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.'30to 40 miles for clinics on the pueblos themselves.Patients will wait many hours inside and out while eachperson is seen separately and personally. It is my feelingthat perhaps medically the Indians get quicker servicethan most average Americans. But many will not go tothe doctor until he again returns to the local clinicbecause of lack of transportation to Santa Fe. Perhapsagain this points up a vital difference with the Indianpatient: trusting the white man's doctor is relativelyrecent as history goes! The Indian Service of the PHShas accomplished much just getting mothers to delivertheir babies in the hospital, to have doctors check theirchildren in well baby clinics, and to bring a child intothe hospital early in the course of an illness before irreparabledamage has resulted.Working in this medical and social problem area isrewarding, though not without life's usual stresses andfrustrations. The difficulties of the American Indianswith whom I labor are certainly different from otherracial groups and are not comparable. The Indian wishesto remain an Indian, though he is willing to make modifications.Perhaps we "Anglos" would like to steal someof the Indian culture; perhaps that unknown quantitywhich lowers heart disease and bodily stress. By chancein the next two years my views will radically change.I can be assured that the Indian will not.An example of .tlle Uoin~ f~Cilities ~o~ the l~ians Doctor McCOImick treats is this reconstructed pueblo site innortheastern At'lzona. TIns tS the Kirushha mte photographed by Philip Uhrig.Robert A. McCormick graduated from Western Maryland College ill 1958 and the University of Maryland Medical School in 1969 Wh'jall campus he was pre~'iden! of PI Alpha Alpha and a member of Beta Beta Beta lIud The Argonauts. w. uepagenine