Lunch with The Lancet

摘要

In I960, 6 weeks before the Belgian Congo was to become independent, physician William Close went to the country on a mission with a religious and self-styled ideological movement called Moral Re-Armament (MRA), He would end up staying 16 years, long after he became disillusioned with MRA, becoming the chief doctor of the Congolese Army, personal physician to Zaire president Mobutu Sese Seko, and completely renovating a 2000-bed hospital in Kinshasha