Dr. Rick Hodes ’75 Helps the Children of Ethiopia | Reader’s Digest

In Ethiopia, there is one doctor for every 40,000 people and never enough medicine. In a nation with a per capita income of $220, modern treatment is reserved largely for the rich. But at Mother Teresa’s Mission, Rick Hodes, MD, devotes himself to healing the poor.

“I like helping people nobody else is interested in,” says Hodes, 55, the senior attending physician at the mission, in Addis Ababa. A native of Long Island [and a member of the Middlebury Class of 1975] who trained at Johns Hopkins University, he sees 20 adults and children a day at no cost to them. Many travel hundreds of miles from remote villages, sometimes in the backs of trucks, to his one-room clinic, where he stops at nothing to get them what they need.

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