Stever, Robert C., 1933-

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Robert C. Stever is a Seattle physician who was born December 5, 1933. He was educated at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, interned at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, and served for 26 years on the medical staff at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Stever traveled to northern India and Nepal on a clinical clerkship and worked in Cambodia for two years as a CARE-Medico volunteer. In 1973 he was part of a Quaker medical aid team in Hanoi in Vietnam, and he made a second trip to Cambodia on a Quaker aid team in 1979, after the fall of Pol Pot. His 1990 book, Magic Moments as Paths Cross, describing the above trips to Asia, has had individual chapters published.

From the guide to the Robert C. Stever Papers, 1969-1982, (University of Washington Libraries Special Collections)

Seattle physician who participated in medical missions to North Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1970s.

Robert Chandler Stever is a Seattle physician who was born December 5, 1933. He was educated at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, interned at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, and served for 26 years on the medical staff at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Stever traveled to northern India and Nepal on a clinical clerkship and worked in Cambodia for two years as a CARE-Medico volunteer. In 1973 he was part of a Quaker medical aid team in Hanoi in Vietnam, and he made a second trip to Cambodia on a Quaker aid team in 1979, after the fall of Pol Pot. Chapters of his 1990 book about the two trips, Magic Moments as Paths Cross, have been published.

From the description of Robert C. Stever papers, 1969-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 52827671

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Cambodia
Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Hanoi (Vietnam)
Hanoi (Vietnam)
Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Washington (State)--Seattle
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Missions, Medical
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Birth 1933-12-05

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