10-13-2006
Chicago Tribune, Artificial knees give her a real sense of freedom
2 doctors-one from Africa, the other Highland Park-meet and help each other.By Deborah Horan
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 13, 2006
For years, Dr. Olabisi Claudius-Cole hobbled on aching knees to perform emergency Caesarean sections, dispense HIV medicine and reattach limbs severed by rebels in her war-torn Sierra Leone.
Grateful patients too poor to pay Cole's $3 fee would instead shower the West African physician with baskets of fruit, fish or live chickens. Cole accepted the gifts with grace, without a word about money or a thought that her good deeds might one day reap a reward.
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