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\tThe Pritzker School of Medicine’s inaugural Doctors Without Boyers expedition departed Hyde Park for the Republic of Somaliland today, becoming the first party of U.S. doctors to embark on an aid mission without Dean John Boyer in the lead.\t\u201cJohn\u2019s been a real credit to the organization,\u201d said Pritzker nephrology resident Dr. Zhang Jiegu. \u201cYou have to see his array of skills to believe it \u2013 stitches and sutures, sucking out snake venom through his mustache, clearing brush, field microsurgery, conversational Tagalog, bargaining with warlords, interpretive dance \u2013 it\u2019s all saved our lives at some point. But we felt it was time to strike out on our own and move on.\u201d <\/p>\n
Pritzker\u2019s elite staff has long been regarded as little more than an adjunct to Boyer\u2019s “cavalier” medical globetrotting. Stories from the Boyers with Doctors era, all extensively fact-checked by The Dealer<\/em>, include his rescue of an entire Hmong village from marauding Viet Cong armed with only a bamboo spear and a slain enemy\u2019s teeth; the development of the polio vaccine (often mistakenly credited to Jonas Salk), which \u201cjust came to [him] in a dream,\u201d and the selective breeding of corn from maize.\t\u201cI have to admit, it\u2019s a little nerve-wracking to think of going in there without Dean Boyer,\u201d remarked Pritzker epidemiologist \u201cBig Jim\u201d Weatherford. \u201cWe used to call him \u2018Mano\u2019 Boyer, because he’d perform two transplants at the same time, one hand each. While taking down phone numbers. Lots of \u2018em. But I think we\u2019ll be fine. Does anyone remember what the spleen does?\u201d\tIf the present Doctors Without Boyers mission is a success, says Dr. Jiegu, Pritzker\u2019s elite health squad already plans to undertake a second journey \u2013 this time to \u201ca real healthcare wasteland, maybe Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Daniel Moattar April 21, 2014 The Pritzker School of Medicine’s inaugural Doctors Without Boyers expedition departed Hyde Park for the Republic of Somaliland today, becoming the first party of U.S. doctors to embark on an aid mission without Dean John Boyer in the lead. \u201cJohn\u2019s been a real credit to the organization,\u201d said Pritzker nephrology resident Dr. Zhang Jiegu. \u201cYou have to see his array of skills to believe it \u2013 stitches and sutures, sucking out snake venom through his mustache, clearing brush, field microsurgery, conversational Tagalog, bargaining with warlords, interpretive dance \u2013 it\u2019s all saved our lives at some point. But we felt it was time to strike out on our own and move on.\u201d Pritzker\u2019s elite staff has long been regarded as little more than an adjunct to Boyer\u2019s “cavalier” medical globetrotting. Stories from the Boyers with Doctors era, all extensively fact-checked by The Dealer, include his rescue of an entire Hmong village from marauding Viet Cong armed with only a bamboo spear and a slain enemy\u2019s teeth; the development of the polio vaccine (often mistakenly credited to Jonas Salk), which \u201cjust came to [him] in a dream,\u201d and the selective breeding of corn from maize. \u201cI have to admit, it\u2019s a little nerve-wracking to think of going in there without Dean Boyer,\u201d remarked Pritzker epidemiologist \u201cBig Jim\u201d Weatherford. \u201cWe used to call him \u2018Mano\u2019 Boyer, because he’d perform two transplants at the same time, one hand each. While taking down phone numbers. Lots of \u2018em. But I think we\u2019ll be fine. Does anyone remember what the spleen does?\u201d If the present Doctors Without Boyers mission is a success, says Dr. Jiegu, Pritzker\u2019s elite health squad already plans to undertake a second journey \u2013 this time to \u201ca real healthcare wasteland, maybe Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}