DEDICATED: When Huntington Beach nurse Lisa Bohm,...
DEDICATED: When Huntington Beach nurse Lisa Bohm, above, started work at a Thai-Cambodian border refugee camp last March (E1), adjustments took a toll. . . . “The heat was really weighing down on me,” she says. She found the checkpoints and the different languages intimidating. She got dysentery and sprained an ankle. But she also got involved. “Each patient had a tragic story; it was emotionally overwhelming.” When she returns this spring, she’ll work with the Cambodian community here.
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